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Cameron Fern
Maths, 2014
Caller Profile
Why did you decide to apply for the 2015 telethon?
I think it's a fantastic opportunity to not only give back to college, but also to improve college in future years. For example, I believe it's imperative no student should be put off coming to Oxford for financial reasons, but to ensure that happens money must be raised to provide bursaries to those who need it.
What are you most looking forward to?
I'm most looking forward to having some nice conversations with some of the alumni, and hearing about not only their experiences at Somerville, but also what they've gone on to do after leaving. Who knows - maybe some useful career tips for myself may come from it...
What do you hope to do after Somerville?
At this stage, I think I'm probably interested in doing a master's degree, and after that I'm still not too sure. Ideas such as data analysis or finance have been considered.
What is your favourite thing about Somerville?
The atmosphere - everyone who goes here instantly feels at home because everyone is just so friendly. That really helped me to settle in at the start of last year.
Oh, and the location with regards to the maths institute is pretty convenient!
The Somerville Telethon
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印象派及現代藝術日拍
THE GILDED AGE REVISITED: PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
Jean Béraud
LE PARC MONCEAU
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Signed Jean Bèraud and dated Xbre 1887 (lower right)
Painted in October 1887.
9 1/8 by 12 7/8 in.
23.2 by 32.7 cm
Madame H. Antoine-May (acquired by 1933)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 18, 1983, lot 21
Richard Green Fine Paintings, Ltd., London
Acquired from the above
Paris, Exposition du Cercle de l’Union artistique, 1888, n.n.
Paris, L’Union interalliée, Exposition des cent portraits, 1922, no. 13 (titled Portrait de M.A.M. et de ses fils)
Paris, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Le Décor de la vie sous la IIIe République de 1870 à 1900, 1933, no. 23 (titled Monsieur Antoine-May et ses fils)
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Jean Béraud, Peintre de la vie parisienne, 1936-37, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Portrait de M. Antoine-May et de ses fils (Devant la grille du parc Monceau))
London, Richard Green Fine Paintings, Ltd., Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century French Paintings, 1983, no. 2, illustrated in the catalogue
"Les Expositions des Cercles," in L’Artiste, 1888, vol. CXXVII, no. 1, p. 190
"Les Oeuvres et les Hommes," in Le Correspondant, Paris, 1888, vol. 150, p. 728
Auguste Dalligny, "L’Exposition du Cercle de l’Union artistique," in Le Journal des arts, February 14-17, 1888, p. 1
Ernest Hoschedé, "Exposition de l’Union Artistique," in L’Événement, February 15, 1888, p. 3
Paul Mantz, "Exposition du Cercle de l’Union artistique," in Le Temps, February 28, 1888, p. 3
Louis de Fourcaud, "À travers les expositions," in La Revue illustrée, April 1, 1888, pp. 247-48, illustrated p. 245
Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud 1849-1935, The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1999, no. 5, illustrated p. 89
Known for hastily sketching Parisian people and places from a hansom cab, Jean Béraud often depicted anonymous city dwellers going about their daily business. What is remarkable about the present work is that the main subject is not a nameless flâneur in the crowd but Béraud’s close friend, Monsieur Antoine-May, who is shown walking his sons home from school. Antoine-May, dressed fashionably in a top hat with umbrella in hand, follows closely behind the smartly dressed boys as they traipse across the rain soaked pavement. Béraud's composition recalls his friend and contemporary Edgar Degas' Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and His Daughters); see fig. 1). In Le Parc Monceau, the boys appear spirited and boisterous in contrast to their rather stoic father who keeps a watchful eye. In an 1888 review of the Exposition du Cercle de l’Union artistique published in L’Artiste, a critic observed, "these three small portraits, signed Béraud, have a personal note and a perfect precision" ("Les Expositions des Cercles," op. cit., p. 190). Observing from a distance, it is as if Béraud presents a snapshot of a random urban scene, albeit one steeped in intimacy. In singling his friend and his two children out from the crowd, he has created three small portraits in a single composition.
As Patrick Offenstadt remarks, "the Paris Béraud records is one where people enjoy themselves, making good use of the capital’s many resources. He also focuses on modern Paris, proud of its broad streets, its architecture and its élan…" (Patrick Offenstadt, op. cit., p. 85). The Parc Monceau, the entrance to which is marked by a grille that surrounds a colonnaded rotunda, seen here, is at once an important historical site and a distinctly modern space, located in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris (see fig. 2). Designed as an English-style garden for Philippe d’Orléans in the late-eighteenth century, it was the first park in the city to be reenvisioned and restored by Baron Haussmann during the Second Empire. The Parc Monceau was a favorite subject of Claude Monet, who painted six different views of this park in both 1876 and 1878. Perhaps the most iconic of the six is The Parc Monceau currently in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which focuses on the park as a space for fashionable Parisians at leisure.
Detail of Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and His Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde), circa 1875, oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
A nineteenth-century postcard featuring the main entrance to the Parc Monceau with the Rotunda
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc: This work on panel is in beautiful condition. The panel is flat. The paint layer is stable. It is clean and well varnished. Under ultraviolet light, one can see a few tiny spots of retouching in the snow in the lower right, none of which interfere with the signature. There are a few other tiny dots in the snow in the lower left. There are retouches to the front of the gentleman's overcoat which reduce a small pentiment. The condition is very good, and the work should be hung as is.
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Home/News/India/Apprised PM of COVID-19 situation in Maha: Fadnavis
Apprised PM of COVID-19 situation in Maha: Fadnavis
By | Updated: 18th July 2020 12:33 pm IST
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has said that he has apprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra.
He told this to reporters in Delhi on Friday night after a meeting with Modi.
Fadnavis said that the PM asked about the situation in Mumbai, Pune and other parts of the state.
“As a leader of opposition, it is my job to apprise the government of the loopholes in the system and the improvements required to be made. I have been demanding that testing in Mumbai should be increased,” he said.
Fadnavis has been visiting parts of Maharashtra to monitor the coronavirus situation and the health care facilities.
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The former state chief minister on Friday also met Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He had later said that no political talks were held during the meeting with Shah, as it was meant to discuss financial assistance to the sugar industry in the state.
Fadnavis said he also met Union Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
“I am confident that the Centre will announce a good package for the sugar industry and farmers in the state,” he said.
Fadnavis is scheduled to meet BJP chief J P Nadda later during the day.
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Home/News/Congress leader targets Rajasthan Guv with series of tweets
Congress leader targets Rajasthan Guv with series of tweets
By IANS| Published: 29th July 2020 4:42 am IST
Jaipur, July 28 : Amid the ongoing political controversy in Rajasthan, All India Congress Committee General Secretary Avinash Pandey on Tuesday had Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra on his radar with a series of tweets with the hashtag #GetWellSoonGovernor.
Pandey in his seven tweets alleged that the Rajasthan Governor does not seem healthy with his biased thinking. Hence he should recover from the infection of unilateral thinking so that he can give his consent to convene an immediate assembly session to protect the Constitution and democracy with an impartial approach, thereby protecting the provisions of the Constitution.
Pandey started his tweet series with a tweet saying, Kalraj Mishraji, identified as a skilled administrator and a mature leader who respects political integrity, holds the dignified post of the Governor of Rajasthan. His image has always been that of an idealistic and religious leader.
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But it is in the context of the crisis that has arisen in Rajasthan, that the Governor of Rajasthan, Kalraj Mishra ji is adopting a full-hearted approach to fulfil the interests of a particular party, which is the common violation of the rules mentioned in our Constitution, he said.
In another tweet, he said, “From this it seems that the democracy of India is no longer governed by the provisions of rules and laws, but it is left to a special party. However, it is unconstitutional to sit holding constitutional positions and then follow the ideology of one particular party.”
“The country is fighting the corona epidemic. Rajasthan lacks financial support from the Centre. There are not enough rains in the state. The locusts have attacked 9 times in a month. The Governor should give his first priority to the issues of the Rajasthan Cabinet and not to any particular party.”
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In his last tweet, he said, “I appeal to all of you, please share your opinion with #GetWellSoonGovernor from your social media handles,” and ended his tweet saying, “Dharam ki Jai ho adharam ka naash ho, satyamev jayate!”
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Home/Technology/Google Search lets users summon 3D Baby yoda to home
Google Search lets users summon 3D Baby yoda to home
By ANI| Posted by Mansoor | Published: 20th December 2020 2:35 pm IST
Washington: Grogu (‘Baby Yoda’) can now be invited into one’s home using Google’s 3D model and augmented reality experience. As of now, searching for the terms ‘Baby Yoda’, ‘Grogu’, and ‘The Child’ on Google Search will pull up a 3D model of the tiny, adorable alien- and the users can now view it in their own room using a smartphone.
According to Mashable, Google Search on mobile is home to a variety of fun 3D models of things ranging from dinosaurs to cats.
The latest addition is Grogu, more commonly called Baby Yoda, from Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’ TV show. Searching any of the three aforementioned terms pulls up an info panel about the character.
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In addition to pictures and a brief description, the info panel includes a 3D model of the small alien. Tap on that model, which will pull up an interactive version that you can rotate with your fingers.
The model includes voice sound effects, as well as an AR mode.
As per Mashable, by tapping the option to view Grogu in your environment, a user can give the Google app access to one’s device’s camera. Point the camera at the floor (or other surfaces) in a room and the 3D model will appear on it, animations and sound effects included.
Mashable reported that the tool provides a neat way to view Baby Yoda in all his glory and is a fun way to entertain kids who may be surprised to see the alien on their bedroom floor.
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Instead of Grogu, one can search for things like ‘cat,’ ‘dog,’ and ‘dinosaur’ for similar AR experiences.
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Home/News/India/Nadda, Parmar express sorrow over ex-BJP MLA Verma’s death
Nadda, Parmar express sorrow over ex-BJP MLA Verma’s death
By | Published: 21st May 2020 3:37 pm IST
Shimla: BJP president J P Nadda and Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar have expressed their condolences over the demise of former legislator Rakesh Verma.
BJP leader Verma had died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
Nadda said he was very sad to learn about Verma’s sudden demise, a BJP spokesperson quoted him as saying.
In his condolence message, Nadda said Verma was his companion during student days and he started his political career with him in 1983.
His absence will be felt immensely by the party, he added.
Parmar said Verma had been active in politics for the last 35 years. He was a good orator and was associated with the poor, underprivileged and backward, he added.
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Verma, who represented Theog assembly segment, was brought dead at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) Wednesday evening.
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Home/News/India/UP: Sweeper, ward boy suspended after stray dog seen tugging at body
UP: Sweeper, ward boy suspended after stray dog seen tugging at body
By Sameer| Updated: 27th November 2020 2:18 pm IST
Sambhal: A sweeper and a ward boy working at a district hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal were suspended after a stray dog was seen tugging at a body, left unattended on a stretcher.
The body was of a minor girl who had died in a road accident. The father of the deceased has accused the hospital officials of negligence. He alleged that the hospital staff left the body of her daughter unattended for over one hour.
संभल में स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं की रोंगटे खड़े कर देने वाली खौफनाक तस्वीर आई सामने।जिला अस्पताल में स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों की लापरवाही की वजह से स्ट्रेचर पर रखे बच्ची के शव को कुत्तों ने नोच कर खाया। जांच करा लापवाही बरतने वालों के खिलाफ हो सख्त कार्रवाई। शोकाकुल परिवार के प्रति संवेदना! pic.twitter.com/3tgEHCTQpb
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) November 26, 2020
Body left unattended
“The body of the girl was left unattended for 1.5 hours. It is a matter of negligence on the hospital’s part. No-one was there to look after the body,” Charan Singh, the father of the minor alleged.
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Responding to the allegations made by the father of the deceased, the Chief Medical Superintendent said that the officials “might have left” the body unattended for “a minute”.
“Body was handed over to the family after formalities. They didn’t want postmortem and were taking it away. They might’ve left it unattended for a minute when it happened. I wrote to Municipality about the stray dog menace but to no avail. Probe committee formed,” said Chief Medical Superintendent Dr Sushil Verma.
Prima facie investigation
“At prima facie investigation, we found out the sweeper and ward boy responsible. They too had had a lot of bodies to deal with. However, we have suspended them. And we have sought an explanation from the doctor that was on emergency duty along with the pharmacist. Also, we have formed a committee to investigate the matter,” the CMS added.
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The news of negligence in the Sambhal hospital comes a day after a family in Aligarh’s Pilkhuni alleged that their newborn baby died due to a hospital’s negligence, adding that her body had animal bite marks on it.
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SIGs in SIETAR Europa
Purpose of this document
This document describes SIETAR Europa Special Interest Groups (SIGs). It explains the purpose of SIGs, the possible structure of a SIG, and how SIGs should be established and run. More details on the process for creating a SIG can be found here
Many professional organisations sub-divide their activities into smaller specialised areas to be managed by a group of members who have an interest in a topic. Wikipedia has this definition:
“A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.”
Why should SIETAR Europa have SIGs?
Most SIETAR Europa members are currently aligned principally with the National SIETAR organisation to which they belong with Direct Members distributed across various geographies.
The creation of SIGs which would be Europe wide and open to all members allows for an alternative alignment of members and networks. SIGs also allow members to address topics of interest across all entities. (See Addendum A below on SIGs and National SIETARs)
SIGs in SIETAR
While there have been groups within SIETAR that informally cooperated to look at specific topics there is no structure within SIETAR to allow members to establish a SIG or for members to join a SIG. SIETAR needs to have mechanisms to formally recognise SIGs and to make visible to all members the existence of SIGs. The actual establishment, organisation and running of a SIG should be done entirely by members. SIETAR Europa should have no role in the creation of SIGs but should have some mechanism for recognising SIGs (see below)
SIG Leaders Forum
SIETAR Europa will establish a forum where leaders of all SIGs and meet on a regular basis to compare organisation issues and ideas. This forum will act to support each other and look for best practice.
What a SIG should have:
Clearly defined subject of interest – as far as possible not overlap or duplicate the work of other SIGs. However, SIGs can of course work together where there are relevant links between topics.
Members. Every SIG should of course have members but there is no limit as to how small or how large the group should be. The group should define what the role of a member is and what expectations there are of members. While this document discusses SIGs within SIETAR Europa it is believed that membership of a SIG should be open to members of all SIETARs worldwide.
A leader and ‘management’ team. These are the people who ensure things happen and communicate to the rest of SIETAR about the SIG. How that group is structured is up to that SIG to suit their needs.
Communication plan/strategy: For example, a website, mailing strategy, LinkedIn group and social media sites if appropriate. Some communications must be created by the Communications Committee to ensure continuity of ownership and compliance with SIEAT Europa standards. The following tools will be set up by the Communications Committee on request:
MailChimp Account
Website template – content to be added by SIG members
LinkedIn Discussion Group
Note that the MailChimp account is mandatory, because of GDPR requirements, as is the Website (in WordPress)
Other communication tools such as Slack or WhatsApp can be created and managed solely by the SIG members as required. However, all tools used by the SIG should be notified to the Communications Committee. (See details in “Creating a SIG”)
Purpose, Objectives, Procedures, Principles, Roles.
Purpose should clearly define why the SIG exists.
Objectives could be things the group wants to achieve e.g. conferences etc. and could be time based.
Procedures could include the process whereby the leadership team is changed, what publications the group produces, often meetings take place etc. In particular the process for members to join and leave the SIG should be clearly defined and meet all data protection standards. Some procedures, such as the membership procedure, should be the same for ALL SIGs in SIETAR Europa
Principles are decisions about how the group is run. For example, that the members communicate knowledge and ideas individually and the leadership team’s role is to monitor and disseminate information. Another principle could be that the SIG will not make statements on behalf of the members.
Roles need to be defined – for example the SIG leader. Is there a role of ‘communications lead’ i.e. a person who monitors and collates the information generated by the members?
How will SIGs be recognised by SIETAR Europa?
Please refer to the section on “Creating a SIG”
Who can join a SIG?
Anyone who is a member of SIETAR anywhere in the world can join a SIG. While SIGs described here are SIETAR Europa bodies, we do not want to exclude other SIETAR organisation’s members.
Where should SIGs come from?
It is expected that SIGs will be created by members. In other words, their creation should be driven by member needs. While other bodies, such as committees or boards, may wish to initiate the creation of a SIG where there is a perceived need, the long-term success of any SIG is more likely if it is member driven.
SIGs should be seen as a way to increase member activity and interest in addition to increasing knowledge of specific topics. There may also be opportunities to create a publication process for SIETAR Europa on the SIG topics of interest.
SIGs and National SIETARs
While SIGs are generally designed as a forum for topic discussion it has been proposed that a SIG might be a way to decide if a National SIETAR is viable – a prelude to creating a full SIETAR organisation. In countries where there are insufficient members to create a formal National SIETAR a Special Interest Group for that country could be formed. Take the case of Bulgaria for example, the former members could, while remaining as Direct Members, reform as a SIG on Bulgaria. “National” SIG created this way could in time grow into fully fledged National SIETARs.
Current SIGs – either formed or in the process of forming
Other SIGs proposed but not yet formed
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The crowd inside a relatively small tent all grooved out together while the sound is transmitted to personal wireless headphones instead of a normal PA system. To claim that the experience is surreal and a trip is an understatement. This one of a kind experiment should not be missed. I would not be surprised to see one popping up in an urban area near you soon.
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Dreamers and Deceivers
True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
By Glenn Beck
Read by Jeremy Lowell
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From #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck, the powerful follow-up to his national bestseller Miracles and Massacres, which was praised as “moving, provocative, and masterful” (Michelle Malkin, bestselling author of Culture of Corruption).
Everyone has heard of a “Ponzi scheme,” but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? You’ve probably been to a Disney theme park, but did you know that the park Walt believed would change the world was actually EPCOT? He died before his vision for it could ever be realized. History is about so much more than dates and dead guys; it’s the greatest story ever told. Now, in Dreamers and Deceivers, Glenn Beck brings ten more true and untold stories to life.
The people who made America were not always what they seemed. There were entrepreneurs and visionaries whose selflessness propelled us forward, but there were also charlatans and fraudsters whose selfishness nearly derailed us. Dreamers and Deceivers brings both of these groups to life with stories written to put you right in the middle of the action.
From the spy Alger Hiss, to the visionary Steve Jobs, to the code-breaker Alan Turing—once you know the full stories behind the half-truths you’ve been force fed…once you begin to see these amazing people from our past as people rather than just names—your perspective on today’s important issues may forever change.
Courtesy of Steve Visneau
Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of TheBlaze television network, has written thirteen #1 bestselling books and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. His recent fiction works include the thrillers Agenda 21, The Overton Window, and its sequel, The Eye of Moloch; his many nonfiction titles include Conform, Miracles and Massacres, Control, and Being George Washington. For more information about Glenn Beck, his books, and TheBlaze television network, visit GlennBeck.com and TheBlaze.com.
About The Reader
Jeremy Lowell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (October 28, 2014)
Runtime: 9 hours and 29 minutes
Political Science > Political Parties
Political Science > Government > Executive Branch
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The Ballet Companion
A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
By Eliza Gaynor Minden
Rave and Reviews
A New Classic for Today's Dancer
The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including:
Practical advice for getting started, such as selecting a school, making the most of class, and studio etiquette
Explanations of ballet fundamentals and major training systems
An illustrated guide through ballet class -- warm-up, barre, and center floor
Guidelines for safe, healthy dancing through a sensible diet, injury prevention, and cross-training with yoga and Pilates
Descriptions of must-see ballets and glossaries of dance, music, and theater terms
Along the way you'll find technique secrets from stars of American Ballet Theatre, lavishly illustrated sidebars on ballet history, and tips on everything from styling a ballet bun to stage makeup to performing the perfect pirouette.
Whether a budding ballerina, serious student, or adult returning to ballet, dancers will find a lively mix of ballet's time-honored traditions and essential new information.
Photo Credit: Eduardo Patino
Eliza Gaynor Minden
Publisher: Atria Books (October 4, 2005)
Raves and Reviews
"Everyone involved with or interested in ballet should read this book. Comprehensively researched and packed with valuable information, The Ballet Companion is a treasure-trove for ballet enthusiasts."
-- Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master/Choreographer, American Ballet Theatre
"This is the very book I would have loved to have discovered when I first started to study ballet."
-- Allegra Kent, former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet and author of Once a Dancer
"Unique and comprehensive, this is a wonderful companion and guide for anybody who loves dance."
-- Edward Villella, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet and founding artistic director, Miami City Ballet
"Eliza Gaynor Minden captures our imagination, taking us into the magical world of ballet."
-- David Howard, internationally acclaimed master teacher and coach
"A superb reference book -- all the information today's students need but can't get just by taking class. Every dancer's library should have it."
-- Angel Corella, principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
"This book is a broad canvas of the history, elements, and components of dance. It is must reading for those who love dance and wish to explore its functions and derivation."
-- Melissa Hayden, former principal dancer New York City Ballet, faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts
"This comprehensive guide to the world of ballet is a must-have for all dance enthusiasts."
-- Gillian Murphy, Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre
"A smorgasboerd of information about the world of ballet!"
-- Alexandra Ansanellli, Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet
"This offers a wealth of information as well as being extremely interesting."
-- Mignon Furman, director, American Academy of Ballet
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Pakistan vs New Zealand 2021
NZ v PAK 2020: Ideal playing XI for both teams for the second T20I at Hamilton
New Zealand and Pakistan will clash in the second T20I of the series on Sunday.
Kane Williamson will return for this clash and lead the side.
In the first T20I match between New Zealand and Pakistan, Pakistan's bowlers Shaheen Afridi (2/27) and Haris Rauf (3/29) put on an incredible show to bring their team back into the game after Pakistan earlier ended on 153/9. In the end, Skipper Mitchell Santner and James Neesham held their nerves and finished the game with seven balls to spare.
Everyone in the Pakistand batting lineup except skipper Shadab Khan (42) and Faheem Ashraf (31) failed, which led to a below-par score on Friday. For New Zealand, debutant Jacob Duffy starred with the ball (4/33), and was the player of the match. Scott Kuggeleijn (3/27) also made a spirited comeback to the Kiwis T20I side after missing out last few games. Wicket-keeper batsmen Tim Seifert top-scored with 57 in 43 balls and laid a perfect platform for the finishers in the tricky chase.
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The Pakistan team will now look to level the series by winning the second match on Sunday.
Ideal Teams for the Second T20I
The Seddon Park at Hamilton, the venue for the second T20I, has historically been a batsman's paradise. 168 is the average first innings total at this ground, and it reduces to 158 in the second innings. In recent times however, batsmen have scored at a run-rate of over 9 in most T20I matches at this venue.
Considering all these factors, we can expect a high-scoring thriller between the two sides on Sunday. New Zealand and Pakistan played two T20I matches (in 2010 and 2016) in Hamilton until now. The hosts won both the games comprehensively. In 2010 Kiwis side beat the visitors by 39 runs margin. And more recently, in 2016, New Zealand annihilated Pakistan as they won by 10-wickets. Pakistan had batted first in that match and scored a decent 168/7 in the first innings.
Umar Akmal top-scored for Pakistan and scored 56 (in 27 balls) to take his team to a respectable score. Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill opened the innings for New Zealand and attacked the bowlers to chase down the score in just 17.4 overs. Guptill remained unbeaten on 87 whereas Kane Willaimson stroked his way to 72 in 48 balls. Both Guptill and Williamson will be a part of the Kiwis squad for the upcoming game.
The Pakistan team management will have to chalk out plans for negotiating the threat the duo poses.
New Zealand will enter this contest as firm favorites to seal the 3-match series. But they cannot underestimate Pakistan, who always finds ways to perform well in the shortest format of the game, even in the absence of crucial players.
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Star Kiwis players Kane Williamson and Trent Boult, who missed the first game, will return on Sunday. Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson, and Daryl Mitchell are also in the squad after missing the first game. The team management rested them as they participated in the Test Series against the West Indies team recently.
Returning Kane Williamson will take back the reins from Mitchell Santner for this game. Williamson will replace Mark Chapman in the playing XI. The Player of the match on Friday, Jacob Duffy, will miss the last two games. Duffy is not a part of the squad for the remaining T20I's against Pakistan.
Trent Boult will replace him in the bowling line-up on Sunday. Tim Southee will also come back into the side and will take Tickner's spot in XI. Mitchell Santner will sit this match out and the lanky pacer, Kyle Jamieson, will replace him.
Pakistan, on the other hand, is struggling for stability in top order. Their linchpin Babar Azam's absence is hurting them dearly. They trusted the inexperienced duo Rizwan and Shafique in the opening role, but they failed to make substantial contributions. They might get another opportunity as Pakistan team management does not have many available choices on the bench.
They might contemplate bringing in former skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed to lend some much-needed stability and experience to the lower middle-order. Their bowling attack will remain unchanged in the upcoming game. Pakistan has won 4 out of the last five T20Is' they played against New Zealand.
New Zealand's ideal XI:
Martin Guptill, Tim Seifert (wk), Kane Williamson(c), Devon Conway, Glenn Phillips, Jimmy Neesham, Kyle Jamieson, Tim Southee, Scott Kuggeleijn, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi
Pakistan's ideal XI:
Mohammad Rizwan(w), Abdullah Shafique, Haider Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Shadab Khan(c), Khushdil Shah, Imad Wasim, Faheem Ashraf, Wahab Riaz, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf
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Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment. This measurement is the most widely utilized and is employed to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) rankings of the "World's Tallest Buildings."
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Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element (i.e., including antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment).
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Fortnite live music concerts: This is really happening
Chris Burns | Apr 24, 2020
Fortnite held a live music concert, streaming a performance of a real, actual, live music artist in the game. How did it work? Who is Travis Scott? What's going on here? Is this the way the future is going to work, now that we're quarantined for COVID-19 all around the world in a never-ending repeat of the same day, over and over again. Did Epic Games find the way to beat the madness?
Motorola flagship phone event set for April 22, 2020
There'll be an event - a VIRTUAL event - this month for Motorola's next flagship smartphone. The company will likely position this phone as a competitor for such massively popular smartphones as the iPhone 11, Samsung Galaxy S20, or the Google Pixel. What'll be particularly interesting is how this device stands up to the OnePlus 8, the device that'll be revealed in full this week.
CDC suggests postponing mass events until mid-May
JC Torres | Mar 15, 2020
As early as February, the threat of the novel coronavirus, which would be officially named COVID-19 eventually, put many large events and organizations to uncertainty. MWC 2020 in late February was canceled out of those concerns and things started downhill from there. Some organizers and individuals are still unsure whether to push through with plans or incur the costs of postponing or even canceling mass events. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC not only recommends that you do but also that you hold off until after 8 weeks.
Apple’s WWDC 2020 goes online-only amid coronavirus crisis
Chris Burns | Mar 13, 2020
The event known as WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2020 was pushed to an online-only event as of this afternoon. The event generally takes place around June, last year it took place on June 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in San Jose, California. This year it'll be in June as well, but dates have not yet been set.
CA gov orders events canceled statewide: Disneyland closes for COVID-19
The latest closure announced in the ongoing global pandemic event surrounding COVID-19 is Disneyland. According to the governor's office in Sacramento, California, we should "expect more announcements like this shortly." This is just the latest in a line of (hopefully temporary) closures of businesses, events, and public places done to protect public health and slow the spread of COVID-19.
Pokemon GO and Shiny Darkrai, Safari Zone refund for COVID-19
Today we're taking a look at the latest release of Pokemon in Pokemon GO with game codes that indicate the near-future for the game. In the mix first are the release of both Darkrai and the Skorupi family into Shiny Pokemon universe. The first appearance of Shiny Darkrai was on the 5th of March, 2020. The first appearance of the Shiny Skorupi family was on a Team Rocket Weekend, also starting on March 5, 2020!
E3 2020 may be the latest COVID-19 casualty
Ewdison Then | Mar 10, 2020
Events and conferences are dropping like flies and it's probably for the best. The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus has thrown many organizations and their planned events into chaos, some canceling just days before schedule. Others, however, may be hoping that it will all be fine in a few months despite calls for cancellations and the withdrawal of key participants. It seems that the E3 gaming conference may be next in line which further raises questions about the event's future.
Apple may have postponed an iPhone SE2 event over coronavirus
Brittany A. Roston | Mar 10, 2020
Apple canceled an event it had originally planned to hold in late March, a new report claims. This event would reportedly have involved the unveiling of two different unspecified products, one of which may have been the anticipated iPhone SE2. Rumors about this alleged event first appeared in February, but it was never actually announced by the company.
How a meteorite destroyed one of humanity’s first settlements
Chris Burns | Mar 9, 2020
To the South of Turkey, to the West of Iraq, to the North of Saudi Arabia and the Northeast of Egypt is a country called Syria. This country is home to a site of some major historical, cultural, and evironmental significance. This site was one of the first known human settlements on earth: Abu Hureyra. A report from researchers from UC Santa Barbara showed that this site may very well have been annihilated by the cosmic impact of a well-placed comet.
SXSW cancelled as Austin declares coronavirus emergency
COVID-19 claimed another event this afternoon. Music-centric event SXSW (South by Southwest) was cancelled as Austin, Texas declared a state of emergency. "We are devastated to share this news with you," said a SXSW representative in a statement this afternoon. "'The show must go on' is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place."
Minecraft Festival in September postponed until next year
JC Torres | Mar 5, 2020
Many companies and organizers are calling off events left and right due to ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Some, like the SXSW Festival next week, insists on pushing through despite how major participants like Apple and HBO are pulling out over health concerns. Just hours before it would have opened ticket sales, Minecraft has postponed its first-ever Minecraft Festival until next year. That despite the event not even happening until later in September.
Apple cancels SXSW 2020 attendance as calls to cancel event rise
Ewdison Then | Mar 4, 2020
The situation surrounding the COVID-19 novel coronavirus virus isn't getting any better and the uncertainty it generates is just as bad. There is no assurance of how long the threat will remain, increasing the risks involved in large gatherings and events. To lessen such risks, Apple has decided against pushing through with its SXSW Film Festival plans this year, even as the event's own organizers seem bullish in continuing.
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WWDC session videos for developers now online
Shane McGlaun | Jun 18, 2010
WWDC 2010 has come and gone and the biggest announcement from the show was certainly the iPhone 4. The device had been rumored for months and was finally made official at the show. The real reason for the show wasn't solely to introduce the new iPhone 4, but to give developers some training.
iPhone 4’s Retina Display rallies as new eye expert weighs in
Vincent Nguyen | Jun 11, 2010
Having formed one of Steve Jobs' nine key points about the new iPhone 4 this past Monday, Apple's Retina Display technology has been making headlines again today over claims that they are "false marketing". Wired spoke to Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, who disagreed with Apple's suggestion that Retina Display, exceeded the "300 pixels per inch" quoted for an average eye. Soneira - though agreeing that the iPhone 4's display was likely to be the best smartphone screen on the market - converted 20/12 angular resolution to the linear resolution of a display, and came up with a figure of 477 pixels per inch at 12-inches, significantly higher than the iPhone 4's 326ppi. Since there are some big claims all round here, SlashGear spoke to Dr. William H.A. Beaudot, Ph.D. of Kybervision Consulting, a visual sciences expert with 20 years experience in the research and computer vision field. Dr. Beaudot told us that part of the confusion here is from the mistaken belief that 20/20 vision is "perfect", but that even at higher limits of visual acuity, Apple's claims still hold water.
One Hundred Million is the Magic Number
Michael Gartenberg | Jun 9, 2010
At the Apple worldwide developer's conference, Steve Jobs talked about a lot of numbers at onstage. Apple talked about the 29% US market share of the smart phone market that the iPhone has achieved. Apple discussed the 58% market share of mobile Web browsing that it now has. Apple even talked about their 22% marketshare in e-books. The most important number, however, that Apple talked about so was 100 million. That's how many iOS devices are in the market as of this month. That's significant and it shows what Apple's long-term platform play is all about. Hint, it's no longer about the personal computer, at least the personal computer as we know it.
What Was Missing From WWDC? Nothing
Philip Berne | Jun 9, 2010
I thought there would be far more rumors leading up to Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference. After all, the big story had already been blown, which left a lot of room open for speculation. Besides, a number of significant Apple products are due for an update, right?
Full iPhone 4 keynote now online
Chris Davies | Jun 8, 2010
Keen to live through the whole iPhone 4 event again, only this time with visuals? If our liveblog wasn't enough to sate your Apple desires, you'll be pleased to hear that the full WWDC 2010 keynote video is now available to watch on-demand through the Apple site.
Apple Safari 5 debuts: 30% faster & new Reader mode
Now here's a surprise. After filling the WWDC 2010 keynote with naught but iPhone 4 goodness, Apple has slipped out Safari 5, the latest version of their desktop browser. Packing a claimed 30-percent performance boost over Safari 4, the new version is also apparently three percent faster than Chrome 5.0 and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6. Of course, it's still a free download, and is available both for Mac and Windows machines.
iPhone 4 hands-on
Vincent Nguyen | Jun 7, 2010
Slimmer, brighter, more powerful and apparently the product of 18 months development: the Apple iPhone 4 certainly is something. The WWDC 2010 opening keynote is over, and we've just been back to check out the new Apple smartphone. Set to debut on June 24th - and up for preorder from June 15th - the Jobs hyperbole and press shots don't do the iPhone 4 justice in your hand. Whether you're an Apple fan or not, you have to give them credit for creating a very slick device.
More first impressions and hands-on gallery and videos after the cut
iPhone 4: quadband 3G but still no T-Mobile USA love
Quadband GSM, Steve Jobs said, and you could hear the hiss of excitement as eager T-Mobile USA customers suddenly wondered if they'd be able to take advantage of the iPhone 4. Unfortunately, a quick glance at the freshly posted spec sheet confirms their hopes are in vain: the iPhone 4 supports 850, 900, 1900 and 2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, not the 1700/2100 T-Mobile USA requires.
Apple’s latest iPhone 4 innovation [Updated with video]
Ben Bajarin | Jun 7, 2010
Apple once again has built and delivered the most advanced mobile device in the market. Steve Jobs, during his interview at the Wall St. Journal conference last week, mentioned that his companies passion was to build the best products around and in this analyst’s opinion they have again set the bar by which other mobile phones will be judged.
This doesn’t mean that other competitors won’t catch up or include key innovations of their own, however for the time being the iPhone 4 and the newly named iOS4 is packed with innovation useful for everyday consumers and tech enthusiasts alike.
It may be easy for many people within the press - including the Apple naysayers - to look at today’s announcements and complain that there was anything truly innovative announced. Statements like these miss the broader picture of not only what Apple is doing but what Apple is doing for the technology industry at large. That being said, I want to highlight several things that require a deeper look.
Apple iPhone 4: $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB, Coming June 24
Evan Selleck | Jun 7, 2010
Steve Jobs, still standing on the stage at WWDC 2010 on Monday, finally unveiled the pricing for the next member of the iPhone family. Prices, whether you're surprised or not, aren't all that different than what we've come to expect from Apple, working together with AT&T, and there's two models to choose from this time around.
Apple FaceTime is Video Calling for iPhone 4 [Updated with Video]
There's a front-facing camera on the iPhone 4, and pretty much everyone assumed that with a front-facing camera, that means you have to have video calling. Apparently Apple agreed with all of you, because sure enough, it's coming to the next version of the iPhone.
Apple iAds: Enabled Beginning July 1 2010
When iPhone OS 4 (or should we say iOS4) was shown off a few months back, we had a pretty good demonstration of how Apple's new, revolutionary mobile advertisement platform was going to work. But, it wouldn't be an Apple keynote if we didn't get to see it in action again. Of course, there's a few more pieces of information in there that are worthy of mention, but we all know Steve Jobs just wanted to show it off again.
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'Financial literacy tool': Bid to take cashless welfare card national
Welfare crackdown
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By David Crowe
February 1, 2020 — 12.01am
The Morrison government is working on a sweeping expansion of its cashless welfare card to impose new controls on social security payments, despite furious claims the "discriminatory" scheme will stigmatise those who need help.
The big four banks and Coles and Woolworths are working on new technical measures that could allow the government to expand the scheme to a national rollout with the capacity to block the purchase of banned items such as alcohol and gambling.
Social Services Minister Anne Ruston wants the cashless welfare card to be rolled out nationally as a financial literacy tool. Credit:AAP
Social Services Minister Anne Ruston is clearing the way for new trials of the controversial card outside regional and remote Australia after "quite successful" work with banks and retailers on payment systems that could impose the curbs on welfare recipients in the major cities.
Senator Ruston said there was "absolutely" a case to introduce the cashless welfare card in major cities given the results at trials in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland, Ceduna in South Australia and the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
"The reason we haven't done it in the major cities is because we need to deal with this technology issue, which we are now close to resolving," she told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
"For this to be a mainstream financial literacy tool for Australia it does need to be rolled out away from just rural and regional communities, and that's the conversation we need to have with the Australian public over the coming months.
"It does need to have a broader application than perhaps the social harm reduction that the original policy was designed on."
The plan marks a significant shift in the scale of the program and a new argument for imposing the controversial controls, with the government claiming it can help welfare recipients manage their money.
The first trials were set up in regions with large Indigenous populations with the goal of curbing domestic violence and social harm by preventing social security payments being spent on alcohol, drugs and gambling.
Labor has slammed the scheme as a "discriminatory" policy that hurts First Nations people the most, declaring it would oppose any "broad-based compulsory income management" beyond the trials.
Opposition social services spokeswoman Linda Burney has said Labor would not stand in the way if a community wanted the card but did not support a national rollout.
"The government should make the cashless debit card voluntary or obtain informed community consent," she said.
"There has been no independent and comprehensive evaluation, and the government has not been able to demonstrate that this card actually works.
"It is making it more difficult for participants to access cheaper products, for example purchasing items online or road-side stores or markets."
A study for the government by Orima Research in 2017 found the first stage of the trials in Ceduna and the Kimberley showed a reduction in the three "target behaviours" of alcohol consumption, illegal drug use and gambling among cashless welfare card participants.
A Queensland University of Technology study of the similar Basics Card in Cape York told the government in November 2018 there were "mixed" results but that income management had contributed to a fall in harmful alcohol consumption, drugs, violence and crime.
But Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has rejected the "misleading data" about the trial sites and argued there was no case for a wider rollout.
"The cashless debit card is not only failing to achieve some of its so-called core objectives, it is making life a lot harder for people on income support and could be contributing to the growing number of people disengaging from the social security system," Senator Siewert said last November.
The government is planning for the wider use of the card at the same time it struggles to get the numbers it needs in the Senate to extend the date for existing cashless debit card trials from June this year to June next year and remove caps on trial participants.
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie visited trial sites in Western Australia on a "fact-finding mission" last month but has declined to say whether she would vote for or against the government bill.
Senator Ruston has spoken to Senator Lambie to urge her to back the bill, which was put to the Senate in the first week of December but is not scheduled for debate in the first fortnight after Parliament resumes on Tuesday.
The new case for the wider rollout could be crucial to the Senate negotiations, with Senator Ruston claiming her visit to some of the trial sites in recent weeks showed the biggest benefits could be in helping recipients budget for their rent and food while saving for the future.
"I think there are some practical examples where this card has really empowered people to take control of their own lives," the minister said.
"They're the good news stories that, perhaps, we aren't hearing.
"The main ongoing benefit that I see from the cashless debit card becoming a more universal platform is that it is a financial literacy tool.
"It gives people the ability to be able to budget. You can use the card to make sure you prepay your rent, you prepay your car payment.
"In a community, you can send money to the local community store so that kids can go in and buy their lunch or their breakfast or fruit for morning tea, so there are some really practical, on the ground financial and budgeting benefits and we're already seeing them happen.
"More broadly, there are some social harm reductions that we have seen in communities."
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Maple House* is a residential unit for up to 16 adolescents experiencing acute mental health problems. Young people, suffering from conditions such as anorexia, self-harm, depression or schizophrenia, can stay for periods ranging from a few weeks to several months. The unit includes a school so they can continue their education, and a wide variety of therapeutic groups.
* pseudonym
Given my university’s links with mental health service providers and users, it was natural that I should include a mental health setting in my practice research. I was intrigued also by the potential for ‘non-therapeutic’ storytelling in a therapeutic setting, and by the different perspectives on storytelling and life that young people with mental health difficulties might offer.
I was invited to lead a trial workshop at Maple House in early 2014. A diverse group of teenagers, some reticent but others lively and wielding their knitting, assembled around a table. I laid out a big sheet of paper and some pastels for doodling purposes. After some introductions and name games, I made several attempts to begin the story I had prepared, but its theme (of seals) triggered off both fond and hilarious memories of pets and other animals in some of the young people. When silence fell, I shyly offered again to share my story, and was given permission. After I’d told it the paper was full of big-eyed seals, intricate wave designs, and other animals. I suggested we use these as the subjects of a chain story, which took several surreal turns after some surprisingly lewd contributions from the apparently most withdrawn member of the group. Mercifully unabashed, the staff invited me to return a few weeks later.
After some months, I was invited to contribute a regular weekly session, which I continued until spring 2016. Rather than being located as ‘therapeutic groups’, they were conducted during school time, and often supported by the setting’s two teachers (both as co-facilitators and as critical friends). With a constantly shifting population of young people, each of whom was subject to changing moods and states of health, these sessions never became predictable. Each needed to function as a stand-alone workshop, and yet it was vital to respond to the interests, talents or challenges expressed by the young people in previous weeks. Attendance fluctuated wildly, as did enthusiasm.
It is difficult to chart a trajectory through this work, but I can trace certain phases, crises and forward movements:
Spring-Summer 2014: Intermittent workshops with a mostly subdued group of young people, often simple storytelling and games with a handcraft activity.
Oct-Dec 2014: Beginning of weekly sessions and close collaboration with setting’s teachers. A group of fiercely intelligent young women, who challenged my practice (see ‘Pushing it too far at Maple House’).
Jan-June 2015: Cautious evolution of ‘projects’: shadow puppetry, working with visiting artists, digital storytelling (‘The Story of Robi/yn’, below) in response to a consultation on mental health services, and intense work with two young people on a collaborative performance (‘Wormwood in the Garden’) emerging from group storytelling and creative writing. Difficulties retaining participation from young people not involved in these projects.
July-Sept 2015: Series of summer holiday sessions starting from crafts (quiltmaking) and moving slowly towards devised storytelling and songwriting based on these, resulting in almost full participation of young people.
Oct 2015-Apr 2016: Ongoing search for balance between inclusivity and intensity of engagement: short story-inspired projects with interested small groups (e.g. songwriting, scriptwriting, art and informal performances), and workshops aiming to include all the young people in storytelling and games.
Endings and Learnings
By April 2016 when my work at Maple House concluded, for the time being, the teachers and I had begun to feel confidence in the shape of the ‘residency’, a shape dictated not by us as much as by the young people and the setting’s characteristics. We came to accept the impossibility of finding a ‘method’ which worked for all or even most of the young people; rather it was important to remain alert to the interests and needs of the young people present at any one time, and the different ways they felt able or willing to engage in sessions. Through experimentation with, and reflection on, many different approaches, we gained a better understanding of how ‘non-therapeutic’ storytelling could benefit young people in a setting dedicated to therapy.
Pathways for Discussion
Stories of practice:
'Pushing it too far at Maple House' - a challenging period with a group of perceptive young women
'It's not about the story at Maple House' - grappling with inclusion and building dynamic engagement
'Storytelling at an adolescent mental health unit'
'Casting stories in plaster - and just hanging around'
'The eloquence of non-engagement'
'Young people's mental health is 'Everybody's Business''
'Young People's Voices in the Policy Process: must we tell our own stories?', Storytelling and Justice Symposium, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, 13 May 2016
c_heinemeyer_must_we_tell_our_stories.pptx
'Neither potion nor plaything, but a provocation: teenagers’ engagement with myth', Myth in the Social Sciences and Humanities symposium, University of York, 2 June 2015
c_heinemeyer_myth_paper.docx
'A Dialogue in Another Room', participant handouts at Children's Faculty conference, Safe and Sound, 4th July 2015, York St John University
a_dialogue_in_another_room.docx
Images from Mill Lodge
John's Legend of Swimming
Story cubes in plaster
Unexpected by-product of story-quilt-making project
Next: Acting Up!
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Latino kids now majority in state's public schools
News // Education
But political clout lags in state - 40% of Hispanic adults can't vote
Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer
Nov. 13, 2010 Updated: Feb. 8, 2012 10:43 p.m.
Latinos now make up a majority of California's public school students, cracking the 50 percent barrier for the first time in the state's history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education.
Almost 50.4 percent of the state's students in the 2009-10 school year identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino, up 1.36 percent from the previous year.
In comparison, 27 percent of California's 6.2 million students identified themselves as white, 9 percent as Asian and 7 percent as black. Students calling themselves Filipino, Pacific Islander, Native American or other total almost 7 percent.
While the result was no surprise to educators, experts say the shift underscores the huge impact Latinos already have on California's politics, economy and school system.
That influence will only grow as Latino parents - now in the majority - realize many of the schools their children attend are underfunded, said Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley.
"It turns upside down how we think about California students," he said.
"A lot depends on the extent to which Latino parents come together and organize," Fuller added. "These are parents who historically have not had much political power. But as they are coming together and feeling their oats, they may organize around education."
Corresponding growth
It's no surprise that Latinos make up the new majority in California schools, considering that their numbers have grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades. In 2009, Latinos made up 37 percent of the state's population, a number that continues to increase, according to the California Department of Finance.
But their electoral sway has not grown by similar amounts, because almost 40 percent of adult Latinos in California are ineligible to vote, said Lisa Garcia Bedolla, an associate professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education.
The challenge, she said, is finding ways to get Latino parents involved in schools when they cannot vote for members of their local school board.
"How do we come up with constructive ways to do that, considering the limitations on how these parents can participate? That's the question from here," she said.
In San Francisco, where an estimated one-third of public school students have a parent who was not born in this country, voters were asked this month to allow noncitizens to vote in school board elections. While Proposition D lost, 45 to 55 percent, the support the ballot measure received from civic leaders showed the growing concern about the role of immigrant parents in local schools.
Electoral clout
While underrepresented on the voting rolls, Latino voters are an increasingly important factor in California elections.
In this month's gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Meg Whitman's firing of an undocumented immigrant housekeeper who worked for her for nine years, and her handling of the controversy after the employment was disclosed, was seen as damaging her standing among Latinos and hurting her at the polls.
In that election, 16 percent of likely voters were expected to be Latino, according to a Field Poll released the day of the election. Latinos now make up 22 percent of the state's registered voters, according to the same survey.
California schools need to do a better job of reaching out to that increasing number of Latino students, said David Gomez, president of the California Association of Latino Superintendents and Administrators and a school superintendent in Ventura County.
Everybody bilingual?
Nearly 1.5 million students are English language learners, but many more still struggle in the classroom with difficult, subject-specific terms, he said.
"For example, if you are studying social science, understanding words like 'justice' and 'beauty' can be difficult," he said. "In math, it can be even harder."
Fuller, the UC Berkeley professor, suggested state educators look at language education in an entirely new way.
"If the majority of the population is becoming bilingual," he said, referring to the growing Latino population learning English, "why shouldn't the white minority also become bilingual?"
Latino students by the numbers
Hispanic or Latino students now make up a majority of public school students in California. Here is the statewide breakdown compared with major Bay Area school districts.
Statewide West Contra Costa Unified San Francisco Unified Oakland Unified
Total students 6,191,655 30,087 55,140 46,099
Hispanic or Latino 3.1 million 14,508 13,078 17,954
White 1.7 million 3,493 5,924 3,442
Asian 526,878 3,210 22,326 6,135
Black 424,518 6,824 6,046 15,033
Other 335,173 1,996 5,235 1,758
Not reported 112,408 56 2,531 1,777
The full report can be found at the California Department of Education website at sfgate.com/ZEFD.
Total students 6,191,655
Hispanic or Latino 3.1 million
White 1.7 million
Asian 526,878
Black 424,518
Other 335,173
Not reported 112,408
West Contra Costa Unified
Hispanic: 14,508
White: 3,493
Asian: 3,210
Black: 6,824
Other: 1,996
Not reported: 56
San Francisco Unified
Hispanic 13,078
White 5,924
Asian 22,326
Black 6,046
Other 5,235
Not reported 2,531
Oakland Unified
Asian 6,135
Black 15,033
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Canary in a wine glass: Drinkers flock to islands' distinct wines
Food // Wine
Derrick Schneider, Special to The Chronicle
Feb. 20, 2011 Updated: Jan. 10, 2012 6:02 p.m.
1of3A moonscape scene in the vineyards of Los Bermejos, on the volcanic island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.Jose Pastor SelectionsShow MoreShow Less
2of3A unique braided multiple cordon system that keeps vines close to the ground in the vineyards of the producer Tajinaste, fromSanta Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.Jose Pastor SelectionsShow MoreShow Less
3of3The barren hillside that hosts a vineyards of Los Bermejos, on the volcanic island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.Jose Pastor SelectionsShow MoreShow Less
Four years ago, wine from the Canary Islands was unheard of in America. Unless you were one of the tourists who visit the archipelago each year, you might have assumed that quality grapes couldn't exist 80 miles off the southwestern coast of Morocco.
But these days, Canary Islands wines have become almost a constant in good Bay Area wine shops and restaurants, largely thanks to their sole American importer, Richmond's Jose Pastor.
"I learned about them from a friend at Tajinaste," says Pastor, a wiry Spaniard with black curly hair and a few days' growth of beard, referring to the first Canary Islands producer he imported in 2007. "I was right away taken by their pure, almost naked, soil-driven character."
Wine drinkers of all stripes quickly pounced. Pastor brought in 3,000 cases of the wines last year and this year plans to import 4,000.
"He's created this out of thin air," says Kevin Hogan, the wine buyer for the Spanish Table in Berkeley. "It's like discovering a room in your house that you never knew existed."
Pastor contrasts the wines with those from the rest of Spain, of which the Canary Islands are a territory.
"The vast majority of the wines being produced in Spain didn't have much personality or identity at all," he says. "They just had too much makeup," he continues, using a common term for overzealous cellar work. "It was and still is almost impossible to recognize their origin."
Canary wines don't seem to suffer the same problem.
"Everything I've ever tasted from there has been unique and special," says Jeff Berlin, the wine buyer for À Côté in Oakland, who routinely features several such wines on his list.
Grapes grown on the islands are a mix of not-unheard-of varieties such as Malvasia and such geeks-only choices as Negramoll - the same as Tinta Negra Mole, the workhorse grape of the more famous Atlantic wine island Madeira, 250 miles northwest.
A surprising grape
A grape called Listán Negro turned out to be a surprise, though. It's rarely seen in modern Spain, but Spanish galleons brought it to California and planted it next to the missions they founded.
Over time, Californians just called it Mission, and it dominated the landscape in the early 19th century. More famous varieties have since taken hold, but pockets of Mission are still scattered throughout the state.
"Everyone had to go to the books to figure out what all these varieties were," Hogan says.
While "distinct" is a well-worn word in the wine world, the Canaries have more claim than most. Volcanoes burped the islands out of the ocean a mere 30 million years ago.
They're still active: On Lanzarote, the easternmost of the Canaries, you can fry an egg in the heat that comes from some crevices. Those burbling bellies have left the islands with a rare, fresh-from-the-planet's-core coating of volcanic soil.
Like a lunar landscape
On most of the islands, says Pastor, the soil is clay with a volcanic substrate. But it is on Lanzarote that things get, as Pastor says, crazy.
Moonscape is a typical description. The other islands' mountains reach to 12,000 feet, hold some of the European Union's highest vineyards (at around 5,300 feet) and, crucially, snag fog flowing from the African coast. But Lanzarote's are too short.
That has left Lanzarote a parched desert. Craters pockmark the island, and old lava flows course across it. The bare soil is painted with a limited palette: deep red-brown, gray and black.
Within this stark landscape, vines look anomalous. They don't even look like normal vines. They hunker against the ground like cacti, spreading horizontally behind curved barriers dug into the earth that winegrowers erect as protection from the easterly winds.
It's no surprise that, even amid the remarkable Canary wines, those from the producer Los Bermejos, on the island of Lanzarote, stick out the most.
The wines manage to be light and meaty at the same time, with a hard-core vibrant acidity and aromatic cues of herbaceousness and smoke.
The flavors have attracted consumers as well as retailers, despite the unusual grapes, normally a turnoff for casual wine drinkers.
"If you think of the food we're cooking in the Bay Area," Hogan says, "there's not a big, heavy meat emphasis. People can still enjoy red wines with foods that would normally be white-wine foods. I tell my cru (single-village) Beaujolais fans that they're like cru Beaujolais but with a volcanic component."
A taste of old
Crazy terroir, great flavor and oddball grapes. What more do you need in a trendy wine for sophisticated drinkers?
How about a vine-growing technique that no longer exists virtually anywhere else in the Old World?
In the 1860s and 1870s, phylloxera wiped out European vineyards until farmers grafted European vines onto American rootstock. But the vineyards might have been saved at a cost to the wine.
Ever since then, writes Christy Campbell in "The Botanist and the Vintner," experts have bemoaned the loss of refinement from ungrafted vines - though most of us might never have known what was lost.
The Canary Islands provide a chance to find out. Phylloxera can't get a foothold in the Canaries' sandy soil and so the vines are ungrafted - essentially the same as they were 150 years ago.
That fact helps explain why the wines have captivated curious drinkers in record time. In a world of wines made from the same grapes in the same styles - sometimes even with the same "flying winemakers" at the helm - Canary Islands bottles remind us of a simpler style of wine. One that only recently ventured beyond locals-only consumption. One that emphasizes freshness and flavor over bombast and showiness. One that's meant to be enjoyed and drunk, not kept as a trophy to one's own success.
A taste of the Canary Islands
In general, Canary wines are light and bright, with a telltale herbaceousness in the reds. Most of the islands are their own Denominacion d'Origen (DO), but some, such as Tenerife, have smaller DOs on the island.
The wines are available throughout the Bay Area; both the Spanish Table and K&L Wine Merchants often carry a selection.
2009 Los Bermejos Lanzarote Tinto Maceración Carbónica ($20): A floral, strawberry-scented wine with a hint of banana, as you'd expect from carbonic maceration (the method used to make much Beaujolais). But the Canary herb notes are still present, as is a bit of campfire. Light and brightly acidic, it would be happy on any dinner table.
2008 Los Bermejos Lanzarote Tinto ($24): Though it's the same grape as the carbonic maceration red, this is miles away, with a funky and bell-pepper-like aroma that will challenge you to find cherry fruit buried within. A dollop of fine-grained tannins make this a more serious but still delicious wine.
2008 Carballo La Palma Blanco ($20): From the producer using the most minimalist winemaking on the islands, this offers a glimpse of what "canary sack," as the British called it, might have tasted like. The nose on this rustic, complex yellow Listán Blanco wine (the same grape as Jerez's Palomino) suggests golden raisins, walnut skins and almonds.
2008 Fronton de Oro Gran Canaria Tinto Tintilla ($28): Tintilla is more often blended with the more ubiquitous Listán Negro, but is here allowed to shine on its own. Nebbiolo-like in a way, with an iron undercurrent below the bell pepper, anise and clean red fruit. The ample tannins made this a great pairing with rare beef.
2007 Tanajara El Hierro Vijariego Negro ($38): A Canary Islands wine for Burgundy lovers - ripe berries meet truffles and button mushrooms, all buoyed by vibrant acidity.
2007 Viñatigo Ycoden-Daute-Isora Verdello ($27): While you might not think mackerel and mustard are good things in tasting notes, the odd aromas add to a delicious, complex mix in this white from a small Tenerife growing area. Red apples, poached pears and a bit of oxidation round out the flavors.
- Derrick Schneider
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Organic Loyalty
The ongoing recession has undoubtedly made U.S. consumers more price-sensitive, but organic foods are holding up surprisingly well this year. The organic food market has experienced tremendous, double-digit growth during the past several years, and growth is expected to continue in 2009, albeit at a slower rate. According to the Organic Trade Association, Greenfield, Mass., U.S. organic food sales
AMY SUNG | Apr 06, 2009
The ongoing recession has undoubtedly made U.S. consumers more price-sensitive, but organic foods are holding up surprisingly well this year. The organic food market has experienced tremendous, double-digit growth during the past several years, and growth is expected to continue in 2009, albeit at a slower rate.
According to the Organic Trade Association, Greenfield, Mass., U.S. organic food sales have grown between 17% and 21% per year for each of the last 10 years. The OTA had originally estimated an 18% growth for 2008, but because some consumers pulled back on purchases during the second half of the year, the association revised its projection down to 10%.
“While organic sales are not as strong as they have been in the past, natural and organic sales are still doing well and have rebounded somewhat since the beginning of the year,” said Maria Brous, spokeswoman for Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets.
PCC Natural Markets, Seattle, is also experiencing similar trends with sales of organic meat, seafood, dairy, deli, bakery and produce.
“The rate of sales increase is slower this year than it was during the first quarter of 2008, but our sales across all categories — and customer counts in all stores — remain strong,” said Russ Ruby, director of merchandising at PCC.
In fact, during the fourth quarter of 2008, organic produce sales remained healthy, while conventional produce sales fell, according to Steve Lutz, executive vice president at The Perishables Group, West Dundee, Ill.
Organic vegetables enjoyed almost double the sales per store per week than organic fruit products in Q4 2008, according to Lutz. Rising retail prices for organic vegetables — up 8.5% compared with Q4 2007 — led to increased dollar sales despite relatively flat volume sales. Prices for the organic fruit category were flat.
“Looking at the top organic fruit and vegetable items, the impact of rising prices on sales is evident,” Lutz said.
“For berries, apples, citrus and tomatoes, average retail prices remained relatively flat, and therefore dollar and volume growth was generally aligned. Bananas, packaged salads and lettuce increased retail prices around 10%. In response, dollar sales increased at a faster rate than volume sales. Berries and tomatoes were the only two organic produce items within the top five to decline in dollars and volume. Their minimal price increases indicate these losses were due to a change in consumer preferences rather than increasing prices.”
ORGANIC VALUE
Of course, the fact that retail prices for organic products are consistently higher than their conventional counterparts has long posed a barrier to category growth, and that challenge won't likely go away now that shoppers are watching their food budgets more closely than ever. In a recent survey included in Mintel's “Organic Food — U.S., October 2008” report, 78% of all respondents listed price as a concern when it comes to buying organics. To continue building growth, retailers may have to rely on better promotions and a focus on value.
“In tough economic times, sales become more important, whether you are a conventional shopper or a natural/organic shopper,” Brous told SN. “Throughout the year we focus sale ads on organic products, regardless of the economy.”
At Associated Food Stores, Salt Lake City, sales of organic produce are up from last year, and promotions on organic items are bringing their prices down close to conventional produce levels, according to Darin Larkin, organic produce buyer.
“[Produce is] still holding stable in the last few months, and so far our sales have not seen a decrease due to the economic slowdown,” Larkin told SN.
“All our categories at Associated Food Stores are seeing some increase in sales from a year ago, but the advertised items are seeing the biggest movement each week. Ad items are now close to conventional prices, and consumers are selecting organic produce in place of conventional.”
Larkin added that in his area, prices are less expensive than a year ago and AFS has more SKU's.
“We are offering better prices, and more items are advertised than in previous years — we have two or three items on ad every week. I believe our organic shoppers are still buying organic, and we are seeing more conventional customers buying organics for health reasons.”
Kevin O'Mahoney, managing director, Meridian Consulting, Wilton, Conn., said he believes consumers were searching for value even before the recession technically began.
“The retailer opportunity remains the same in this economy as before — to offer the right value equation of products that enable both the ‘value’ and ‘savvy’ consumer to build loyalty to their unique shopping experience,” O'Mahoney said.
“For example, the retailer should continue to integrate organic products with conventional products, to enable conversion for those consumers moving along the continuum of wanting a more healthy lifestyle for themselves and their families. Research has shown that this integration enables that conversion to both higher and more profitable transactions for the retailer, while simplifying the shopping experience for the consumer — a shopping experience that embraces the variety of choices for a spectrum of consumers looking for both value and lifestyle benefits from the products and services found within their stores.”
HEALTHY PRIORITIES
Many of the organic category's most loyal shoppers view the consumption of organics as an investment in their long-term health, and might argue that it is worth paying a little more for products produced without the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, artificial hormones or artificial ingredients. But O'Mahoney noted that those choices could become harder to make as shoppers have less disposable income.
“Overall, the economy has clearly made consumers rethink the value equation of both the products and channels where they are purchasing,” said O'Mahoney.
“The gap in pricing [between] regular products and organic products in some categories has shown an erosion of growth for organic products in both the perimeter and Center Store; however, the ever-growing segment of ‘savvy consumers’ who have made a lifestyle choice of purchasing healthy products remains strong, and their loyalty to purchasing both organic and natural products continues.”
PCC's Ruby agreed. “For many of our shoppers, PCC is part of their lifestyle choice, and they regard the purchase of healthy, organic food as an investment in their long-term health,” he said.
“They also appreciate that organically grown and produced food has more flavor and nutrition than conventionally produced food and therefore offers a greater value. However, purchasing patterns have shifted somewhat, in that shoppers are more attentive to featured and on-sale items and to the budget-stretching options bulk foods offer. We encourage our shoppers to buy seasonal and locally sourced organic products, buy organically in bulk, prepare meals at home and take advantage of case discounts.”
In addition, Ruby said PCC helps shoppers cope with the slow economy without sacrificing health by offering “back-to-basics in-store food demos, like just-add-water bulk soup mixes; PCC Cooks classes on cooking basics and recipes, such as “Soup simplifies your life,” “In season: cooking produce at its best,” and “Meals within the family budget”; and food selection and preparation information via PCC's website, electronic newsletter, and PCC's trained staff in every department.
“We help PCC shoppers keep their commitment to healthy eating by staying true to our brand, product mix and reputation as an advocate for the consumer — all elements that create a shopping environment and experience that supports their commitment,” Ruby told SN. “We also offer biweekly specials and featured items in all categories.”
For PCC, driving value while maintaining the product standards that the cooperative's members and customers expect remains a challenge, according to Ruby.
“We are working to reduce costs and promote more efficiently with our suppliers,” he said.
“We are staying focused on the long run and on improving our business practices, rather than cutting staff and reducing retails to make a number.”
Mintel's report said that to maintain organic consumers' attention when price sensitivity is high, retailers should offer a wider array of package sizes at different price points to help loyal organic shoppers find the products they want at prices they can afford, and that they “must emphasize the quality of organics and why the quality makes a difference.”
Suman Lawrence, Living Well business manager for Lubbock, Texas-based United Supermarkets, agreed that higher prices remain a barrier in the organic category, but added that she believes consumers who were already buying organic are continuing to buy despite the faltering economy.
“The core shoppers who live that lifestyle will not comprise on quality,” Lawrence told SN.
“Mothers with young children and new babies are still buying organics. They may have traded down to store brands instead, as these are cheaper.”
TRADING SAVINGS
Because of the higher price points of Certified Organic fresh foods, some consumers are opting for private-label organic items or are switching to all-natural items.
United's bakery departments, for example, used to offer about 10 SKUs of organic breads, but when commodity prices spiked last year, the chain reduced the number of organic breads to two and converted others to all-natural, Tammy Kampsula, business director of bakery, told SN.
“This was done to keep the retail price increases to a minimum,” Kampsula said.
“In some cases, we absorbed the cost increases to keep the retail prices the same. When we made the change to all-natural, we did not see a decline in the sales. I believe this to be true because all-natural is still a healthy choice — all-natural breads are an excellent choice for those guests who are health-conscious.”
Meanwhile, private-label items have helped keep sales afloat in the store's dairy departments.
“Dairy as a whole is down about 13% for natural and organic; however, our private label has picked up some of the organic milk, butter, eggs and orange juice business from national brands such as Horizon and Organic Valley,” Lawrence said. “With this we probably are about the same level as the prior years.”
Private-label products were not included in Mintel's report, but the report did note that their influence on the market is growing.
“In most instances, store brands offer lower prices than branded products, and retailer brands have been keeping pace with innovation. Prime examples are products from Safeway's O Organics, Ahold's Nature's Promise, and Whole Foods' 365 lines,” the report stated.
Publix also has an organic private-label brand, GreenWise, which was launched in 2000.
“Sales of our Publix GreenWise brand products have proven to have a loyal following among our customers and resonate well with them,” said Brous.
“While perhaps more customers these days are switching to our Publix GreenWise brand strictly because of the economics, the price and quality of these products have long been an attraction to this brand.”
Mintel's “Organic Food — U.S., October 2008” report originally forecast the organic food market to grow some 14.3% in 2008. Now, in light of the current economic recession, the estimate has been revised down to 12.1% growth.
“Additionally, Mintel forecasts a further decline in 2009, as consumer food and beverage spending is curtailed and premium-priced options like organics are replaced with less expensive conventional products,” the newly revised report, published this past January, stated.
“While some consumers will continue to invest in higher-priced organic products, Mintel expects a general shift away from these higher-priced products. As consumers continue to budget, expect additional expansion in the private label arena to keep prices down, thereby lowering total dollar sales figures.”
While the economic climate continues to worsen and has caused worried customers to tighten their purse strings, it appears organic foods won't be taking the hit that some thought the category might.
“Our members remain loyal because of the value we provide on the natural and organic products they want, and the values we support in the community,” Ruby said.
“Customers enjoy discount incentives when they shop our stores, and they understand that their patronage helps keep the local outreach and education programs PCC's supports going strong.”
And with the price gap getting smaller, and consumer attitudes about health and lifestyle still evidently being held as a priority, retailers can use that to leverage their organic departments by emphasizing quality, taste and health, while offering more options within organic, such as private label.
“I believe organic customers are still going to buy organic,” Larkin said.
“You may occasionally lose conventional shoppers to the difference in price. As for sales, Associated Food Stores is being more aggressive in our ads and in our everyday pricing. We believe organic sales will continue to grow over the next few years. Prices are coming closer to conventional, and the media continues to push the benefits to eating organics.”
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"Chasing the Southern Sun": A movie about Iain Campbell's lifelong dream
December 21, 2017 | Bodyboarding
Iain Campell has a new movie. And you'll love it.
South African filmmaker Michael Veltman followed the steps of Iain Campbell, as he embarked on a year-long adventure that would earn him his maiden APB World Tour title.
"It just started after school every day. Bodyboarding was an afternoon activity that grew into a passion, which soon became my life," reveals Campbell in his biographical movie.
"Coming from Durban, growing up at North Beach, and developing my skills in the local competitions, I was always encouraged to become a competitive bodyboarder."
"Chasing The Southern Sun" is a 25-minute film about Campbell's path to glory. In 2017, he became the third ever South African athlete to win a world bodyboarding title.
Iain Campell says that one day, in December 2016, he felt determined to train and prepare for a world title hunt. It was his dream. But the South African worked hard to achieve his longtime goal.
Campbell found a trainer - Philip Nel - and adopted a workout program specifically designed for bodyboarding which included exercises that helped him increase overall strength and flexibility, and muscular power.
The young rider missed the second stop on the 2017 APB World Tour, but he resumed competition with the right mental attitude and at his full physical potential.
In-between stages, Iain Campbell free-surfed some of the most challenging waves on the planet, including Namibia's endless barreling wave - Skeleton Bay.
"Chasing The Southern Sun" really is a movie for all who love bodyboarding. Even Campbell's direct opponents will be touched and impressed by the beauty of its images.
Iain Campbell wins 2020 Mike Stewart Pipeline Invitational
The Bodyboarding Archives are keeping vintage boogie movies alive
Portuguese bodyboard movie "Roots" returns in digital format
Morey Boogie Bodyboards Presents: Bodyboarding on the Edge
Iain Campbell wins 2018 Itacoatiara Pro
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SysTutorials
Linux Manual Pages
Session 1p
Starting with c
cksum (1p) - Linux Man Pages
cksum: write file checksums and sizes
Command to display cksum manual in Linux: $ man 1p cksum
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
cksum - write file checksums and sizes
cksum [file ...]
The cksum utility shall calculate and write to standard output a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each input file, and also write to standard output the number of octets in each file. The CRC used is based on the polynomial used for CRC error checking in the ISO/IEC 8802-3:1996 standard (Ethernet).
The encoding for the CRC checksum is defined by the generating polynomial:
G(x)=x**32+x**26+x**23+x**22+x**16+x**12+x**11+x**10+x**8+x**7+x**5+x**4+x**2+x+1
Mathematically, the CRC value corresponding to a given file shall be defined by the following procedure:
The n bits to be evaluated are considered to be the coefficients of a mod 2 polynomial M( x) of degree n-1. These n bits are the bits from the file, with the most significant bit being the most significant bit of the first octet of the file and the last bit being the least significant bit of the last octet, padded with zero bits (if necessary) to achieve an integral number of octets, followed by one or more octets representing the length of the file as a binary value, least significant octet first. The smallest number of octets capable of representing this integer shall be used.
M( x) is multiplied by x**32 (that is, shifted left 32 bits) and divided by G( x) using mod 2 division, producing a remainder R( x) of degree <= 31.
The coefficients of R( x) are considered to be a 32-bit sequence.
The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.
The following operand shall be supported:
A pathname of a file to be checked. If no file operands are specified, the standard input shall be used.
The standard input shall be used only if no file operands are specified. See the INPUT FILES section.
INPUT FILES
The input files can be any file type.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of cksum:
Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
LC_ALL
If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE
Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
NLSPATH
Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .
ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
For each file processed successfully, the cksum utility shall write in the following format:
"%u %d %s\n", <checksum>, <# of octets>, <pathname>
If no file operand was specified, the pathname and its leading <space> shall be omitted.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
OUTPUT FILES
The following exit values shall be returned:
All files were processed successfully.
CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
The cksum utility is typically used to quickly compare a suspect file against a trusted version of the same, such as to ensure that files transmitted over noisy media arrive intact. However, this comparison cannot be considered cryptographically secure. The chances of a damaged file producing the same CRC as the original are small; deliberate deception is difficult, but probably not impossible.
Although input files to cksum can be any type, the results need not be what would be expected on character special device files or on file types not described by the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. Since this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not specify the block size used when doing input, checksums of character special files need not process all of the data in those files.
The algorithm is expressed in terms of a bitstream divided into octets. If a file is transmitted between two systems and undergoes any data transformation (such as changing little-endian byte ordering to big-endian), identical CRC values cannot be expected. Implementations performing such transformations may extend cksum to handle such situations.
The following C-language program can be used as a model to describe the algorithm. It assumes that a char is one octet. It also assumes that the entire file is available for one pass through the function. This was done for simplicity in demonstrating the algorithm, rather than as an implementation model.
static unsigned long crctab[] = {
0x00000000,
0x04c11db7, 0x09823b6e, 0x0d4326d9, 0x130476dc, 0x17c56b6b,
0x1a864db2, 0x1e475005, 0x2608edb8, 0x22c9f00f, 0x2f8ad6d6,
0x2b4bcb61, 0x350c9b64, 0x31cd86d3, 0x3c8ea00a, 0x384fbdbd,
0x4c11db70, 0x48d0c6c7, 0x4593e01e, 0x4152fda9, 0x5f15adac,
0x5bd4b01b, 0x569796c2, 0x52568b75, 0x6a1936c8, 0x6ed82b7f,
0x639b0da6, 0x675a1011, 0x791d4014, 0x7ddc5da3, 0x709f7b7a,
0x745e66cd, 0x9823b6e0, 0x9ce2ab57, 0x91a18d8e, 0x95609039,
0x8b27c03c, 0x8fe6dd8b, 0x82a5fb52, 0x8664e6e5, 0xbe2b5b58,
0xbaea46ef, 0xb7a96036, 0xb3687d81, 0xad2f2d84, 0xa9ee3033,
0xa4ad16ea, 0xa06c0b5d, 0xd4326d90, 0xd0f37027, 0xddb056fe,
0xd9714b49, 0xc7361b4c, 0xc3f706fb, 0xceb42022, 0xca753d95,
0xf23a8028, 0xf6fb9d9f, 0xfbb8bb46, 0xff79a6f1, 0xe13ef6f4,
0xe5ffeb43, 0xe8bccd9a, 0xec7dd02d, 0x34867077, 0x30476dc0,
0x3d044b19, 0x39c556ae, 0x278206ab, 0x23431b1c, 0x2e003dc5,
0x2ac12072, 0x128e9dcf, 0x164f8078, 0x1b0ca6a1, 0x1fcdbb16,
0x018aeb13, 0x054bf6a4, 0x0808d07d, 0x0cc9cdca, 0x7897ab07,
0x7c56b6b0, 0x71159069, 0x75d48dde, 0x6b93dddb, 0x6f52c06c,
0x6211e6b5, 0x66d0fb02, 0x5e9f46bf, 0x5a5e5b08, 0x571d7dd1,
0x53dc6066, 0x4d9b3063, 0x495a2dd4, 0x44190b0d, 0x40d816ba,
0xaca5c697, 0xa864db20, 0xa527fdf9, 0xa1e6e04e, 0xbfa1b04b,
0xbb60adfc, 0xb6238b25, 0xb2e29692, 0x8aad2b2f, 0x8e6c3698,
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unsigned long memcrc(const unsigned char *b, size_t n)
/* Input arguments:
* const char* b == byte sequence to checksum
* size_t n == length of sequence
register unsigned i, c, s = 0;
for (i = n; i > 0; --i) {
c = (unsigned)(*b++);
s = (s << 8) ^ crctab[(s >> 24) ^ c];
/* Extend with the length of the string. */
while (n != 0) {
c = n & 0377;
n >>= 8;
return ~s;
The historical practice of writing the number of "blocks" has been changed to writing the number of octets, since the latter is not only more useful, but also since historical implementations have not been consistent in defining what a "block" meant. Octets are used instead of bytes because bytes can differ in size between systems.
The algorithm used was selected to increase the operational robustness of cksum. Neither the System V nor BSD sum algorithm was selected. Since each of these was different and each was the default behavior on those systems, no realistic compromise was available if either were selected-some set of historical applications would break. Therefore, the name was changed to cksum. Although the historical sum commands will probably continue to be provided for many years, programs designed for portability across systems should use the new name.
The algorithm selected is based on that used by the ISO/IEC 8802-3:1996 standard (Ethernet) for the frame check sequence field. The algorithm used does not match the technical definition of a checksum; the term is used for historical reasons. The length of the file is included in the CRC calculation because this parallels inclusion of a length field by Ethernet in its CRC, but also because it guards against inadvertent collisions between files that begin with different series of zero octets. The chance that two different files produce identical CRCs is much greater when their lengths are not considered. Keeping the length and the checksum of the file itself separate would yield a slightly more robust algorithm, but historical usage has always been that a single number (the checksum as printed) represents the signature of the file. It was decided that historical usage was the more important consideration.
Early proposals contained modifications to the Ethernet algorithm that involved extracting table values whenever an intermediate result became zero. This was demonstrated to be less robust than the current method and mathematically difficult to describe or justify.
The calculation used is identical to that given in pseudo-code in the referenced Sarwate article. The pseudo-code rendition is:
X <- 0; Y <- 0;
for i <- m -1 step -1 until 0 do
T <- X(1) ^ A[i];
X(1) <- X(0); X(0) <- Y(1); Y(1) <- Y(0); Y(0) <- 0;
comment: f[T] and f'[T] denote the T-th words in the
table f and f' ;
X <- X ^ f[T]; Y <- Y ^ f'[T];
The pseudo-code is reproduced exactly as given; however, note that in the case of cksum, A[i] represents a byte of the file, the words X and Y are treated as a single 32-bit value, and the tables f and f' are a single table containing 32-bit values.
The referenced Sarwate article also discusses generating the table.
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
Pages related to cksum
cksum (1) - checksum and count the bytes in a file
cksum (n) - Calculate a cksum(1) compatible checksum
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[Island] Into The Wild v1.1.6 (NOT updated for ITB 1.2)
Distribute and discuss mods that are functional.
Lemonymous
Re: [Island] Into The Wild v1.1.2
Postby Lemonymous » Sun Aug 11, 2019 11:25 am
Having the islands be random is an interesting suggestion. We originally wanted to do this, but technical limitations made it very difficult to implement it in a good way.
Hawkeye2404
Postby Hawkeye2404 » Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:04 pm
I presume you guys are going to add the missing Sequoia mob (new to this whole thing... don't know if it's actually in yet?), and also give the rest of the Vek their Alpha and Leader versions where missing or where you find it fitting.
The Cactus wouldn't work as a Vek Leader, in my opinion. Firstly, it cannot move at all. It would be too easy a target and it would not be able to move to another position or target another building if it's current position or target gets compromised. And unless it already spawns in line with the Corporate HQ (which might not always happen, or sometimes there might be mountains in the way), it won't be able to even try and destroy it. As the Cactus currently is, it just wouldn't work as a Leader, unless it undergoes some drastic changes.
And I presume the Sequoia would be a unique Vek Leader, like the Goo boss from vanilla, which has no normal form and only rarely appears.
Alpha Sprout:
I'd say you guys should increase it's hp by at least 1 point (for a total of 3 hp), to coincide with vanilla mobs, like the leaper. It's damage is fine, it's just it's hp I'm a bit concerned about.
Leader Sprout:
4 or 5 Health. 4 Move Points. 4 or 5 damage attack. Perhaps even increase it's attack range by 1 tile, since it's now a Leader. But I don't know if the Sprout should be made a Leader. This is just how I envision it's stats would look like if it were.
Leader Bud:
7 Health. Perhaps make it shoot more Copters onto the battlefield than usual, but keep the damage it takes when doing so the same (takes 1 damage to deploy Copters). It deploys Alpha Copters, obviously. This would set it apart from it's normal and Alpha versions, as it can now deploy multiple copters, like the Spider Vek. The reason I think the Bud is more viable for Vek Leader than the Cactus is because the Bud at least deploys other Vek onto the battlefield, who can then move around, attack the player and defend the Bud if necessary. This makes it much better than the Cactus.
Overall I think the Cactus is pretty weak, because of the fact that it cannot move at all (or am I misinterpreting it's description?)
Alpha Puffer:
At the very least make it have more health than it's normal counterpart. Normally, there's a difference of 2 between the normal and the Alpha versions of a Vek, with the exception of the Beetle and the Blobber, who only have a difference of 1. I'd say increase the Alpha Puffer's hp to 4
Leader Puffer:
5 or 6 hp. Keep it's Move Points the same, I think it's fine just as is. Increase it's damage by another 2 points, since it's now a Leader. I also think it's attack range should be boosted in some way. The Puffer is like the vanilla Burrower. The Burrower has an attack area of 3 tiles, but lower damage, whereas the Puffer has a smaller attack area, higher damage, and creates a smoke cloud where it wants to attack. It's quite balanced, but I don't exactly know how you'll boost the Puffer to make it feel like a real Leader...
Beanstalker:
The Beanstalker is the Island's direct counterpart of the Beetle, thus it's stats should reflect this. Since it can push adjacent tiles away, potentially messing up the player's positioning and damaging them if they collide with anything, it's safe to say the normal Beanstalker is fine as is. But I think the Alpha and Leader versions should get some added damage to their attack to things they collide with. I mean, they might not have spikes and such like the Beetle, but the bigger they get the harder they hit, right? Maybe not a huge boost in damage, but just give it some consistent way to deal direct damage to the player. Or if you don't want to increase it's damage, maybe give it better survivability. Give it some armour, so it's harder to kill. That'd also do the trick, I think.
Gnarl:
I think you should give it some armour. It's like a tree, right? So maybe it should have thick armour, to reflect the hardness of it's bark. Alpha and Leader versions could have further increases in health and damage, but I don't think you should increase the Gnarl's damage by too much. Perhaps you should rather give the Leader Gnarl an increase in the range it can throw it's rocks, rather than damage? Look at the More Bosses mod's Digger Leader, it can push it's rocks over much larger distances, but it's damage wasn't majorly boosted like you see with most other bosses.
IDEA on Sequoia boss:
I heard that the Sequoia tree (in real life) needs fire for it's seeds to germinate. Perhaps you could use this for the boss in the game. The Sequoia boss could be an artillery enemy. It burrows to a safe spot and prepares to rain it's acorns down on it's enemies. And here's where the fire comes in. These acorns could be on fire. They set tiles on which they land on fire. So if the player manages to evade the acorns, they set a big area on fire, encouraging the player to kill the boss quickly. And since the boss immediately burrows back underground whenever it takes damage, the player has to be quick and try to one-shot the boss. Another thing: the Sequoia, like the Gnarl, is a tree, and it should maybe have armour to represent it's thick tree bark. This would make it harder to kill the boss, but I'm sure you guys could figure something out.
Thank you for reading my post. I hope you guys found at least some of my ideas helpful. Cheers!
Gerbertronic
Postby Gerbertronic » Sun Sep 29, 2019 3:24 am
Fantastic mod, I'm really enjoying it! However, I have encountered a glitch. Whenever I choose a mission with Volcanic Vents, it crashes at the start of the turn. When I look at my computer's Task Manager, the 3D section of my GPU is spiking to 100% when the game crashes. Hope you can fix this!
Postby Lemonymous » Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:02 pm
Gerbertronic wrote: Fantastic mod, I'm really enjoying it! However, I have encountered a glitch. Whenever I choose a mission with Volcanic Vents, it crashes at the start of the turn. When I look at my computer's Task Manager, the 3D section of my GPU is spiking to 100% when the game crashes. Hope you can fix this!
Thank you, I am glad you are enjoying it!
I am not able to reproduce this problem.
If you'd like help debugging the issue, you can join the discord server and give me (Lemonymous#6212) a DM, and we can try to figure out what went wrong.
Postby Lemonymous » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:27 pm
If anyone has the same issue as Gerbertronic, I have now made an update that should solve it, as well as a few other issues.
TheAddar
Postby TheAddar » Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:07 pm
Buddy... This mod and your ability are so impressive seeing this creation practically topped up my faith in humanity. Extreme skill, game design mastery on par with that of the original creation. Remarkably exquisite. Thank you for using your talent in this world and letting us experience its proceeds.
Postby Lemonymous » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:33 am
So kind words! Thank you so much!
I was very lucky to be able to work with Djinn, who made almost all of the enemy sprites you see on the island.
gabok
Postby gabok » Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:48 am
Fantastic mod, it's exactly the kind of content I think most ITB fans were hoping for since people started figuring how to mod this game, I thank you Lemonymous and everyone else who was involved in the project, really good stuff.
All that being said, I've been experiencing a weird bug, I don't know exactly how to trigger it but it has happened 3 times now, essentially, while using one of your squad (RF1995), which I also love by the way, I've had the game basically froze after attempting to use the Light Tank's Snubnose Cannon on any (most?) mission on Meridia, I click on a target and the game just stops, it doesn't crash or hang since the musics keeps playing and all sprites are playing their idle animations but all I can do is basically close the game or abandon that timeline, all other mechs can use their weapons normally and I can eventually finish the mission by just skipping the turn instead of attacking with the Light Tank, what could be causing this?
Postby Lemonymous » Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:56 am
Hi, and thank you! I am very happy you are enjoying the mod.
The bug you are describing has been brought to my attention before. I sort of know what causes it, but it is unfortunately not trivial to get rid of. I cannot promise to fix it right away, but it is on my todo list.
Postby gabok » Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:07 pm
I see, thank you for the fast reply, does this only happen with that specific Squad? I know I've played with your other custom squads without issue, for example Archive Armor and Disposal Mechs.
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LONDON. In this Thursday, November 7, 2019 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, attend the 91st Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are fulfilling their last royal commitment Monday March 9, 2020 when they appear at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey. (AP)
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will fulfill their final royal commitment when they appear Monday at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London. It's the last time they will be seen at work with the entire royal Windsor clan before they fly off into self-imposed exile in North America.
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With his ginger hair, close-cropped beard and easy manner, Harry had become one of the royal family's most popular members after shedding the hard-partying image of his youth. The youngest son of Charles and the late Princess Diana, Harry is sixth in line to the throne, after his father, William and William's three children. More importantly, he and William were seen as a new generation who would modernize the royals.
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Anguish followed the dueling announcements.
Aggrieved taxpayers insisted that Harry and Meghan repay the 2.4 million pounds ($3.1 million) of public money spent to renovate the house in Windsor where they had planned to live. Their social media feeds, normally full of heart-shaped emoticons, were flooded with ill-tempered commentary about their decision to abandon Britain.
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Well to start with, they won’t use their royal titles.
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Harry for his part has a special bond with British military causes, such as the Endeavour Fund, which helps wounded service personnel use sports to recover from their injuries. He promised he wouldn't go away.
"A lot of you tonight have told me you have my back," he said in a veiled reference to his royal struggles. "Well I’m also here to tell you, I’ve always got yours." (AP)
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Hands on: Microsoft Surface Pro sticks to formula
August 15th, 2017 | by Alfred Siew
The new Surface Pro is familiar because it looks almost similar to the one from 2015. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
If you looked at the latest Microsoft Surface Pro for the first time, you might not notice the differences with the previous tablet-laptop hybrid it replaces.
This year’s iteration, coming almost two years since the Surface Pro 4 in 2015, might be one of the least ambitious since the company first introduced the lineup back in 2013. The reason is simple – the formula already works.
The familiar tablet-like 12.3-inch screen offers a nice balance between a large tablet display and thin-and-light ultrabook screen. What you get, Microsoft will hope, is the best of both worlds.
No stranger either is the 2,736 x 1,824 resolution that is sharper than many of your average laptops. At a media launch today, I was impressed by the fine details on display. Impressive too is the colour balance, which does not veer into the realm of over-saturation.
PHOTO: Wilson Wong
One of the star features is the 10-point multi-touch screen that Microsoft was keen to show off today in Singapore. Professional artists now use the tablet to draw and illustrate images used for commercial purposes.
I still consider Apple’s iPad Pro the gold standard when it comes to mimicking a physical writing pad or drawing board (outside of the professional-grade Wacom Cintiq digital canvases). However, the Surface Pro is no slouch with its own stylus.
The Surface Pen does very well to enable the different strokes you can apply to a surface. Said to be twice as sensitive as a previous version with more than 4,000 levels of pressure sensitivity, it lets you vary your strokes easily, say, by tilting it at an angle for shading.
It feels natural too, especially with the added “feel” that you get while moving across the surface. Instead of feeling like plastic on glass, it comes across as almost like pen on paper, thanks to the added friction.
The Surface Pro stylus feels natural, especially with a tip that makes you imagine you are writing or drawing on paper. PHOTO: Alfred Siew
The bad news is that the stylus is now not included in the price. It costs S$148 and if you are want to pick a pen tip, say, for the feel of a fine-point pen, be prepared to pay another S$34.
The other thing you’d expect to pay is the S$199 Surface Pro Type Cover. This is really a must-have for the Surface Pro, because without it, the device becomes a tablet, not a laptop. You won’t otherwise be shelling out at least S$1,188 for it.
Good news is, the keyboard is excellent. For one that is so thin and light, there is surprising key travel, so you don’t bang your poor fingers so painfully into a hard surface. I write for a living, so a keyboard like this, especially with the snap-on convenience, is a big plus.
One other thing you’d notice on the new tablet is a slight change to the hinge. Though it looks familiar, it now lets you push the tablet way down, almost flush to a table top. Great for drawing something on the screen, or simply reading a magazine.
There are still the old bugbears, to be fair. It’s not hard to imagine the trickiness in balancing the Surface Pro on your lap, for example. Even though recent versions have been easier, you should expect to have the stand biting into your thigh if you sit for long stretches.
Plus, if you have always preferred a laptop, not a tablet, then you might find the Surface Pro still lacks the solid feel of a traditional thin-and-light clamshell design. The Dell XPS 13, for example, is so portable yet feels bomb-proof.
For those who want a two-in-one, that’s another story, of course. With this in mind, Microsoft is simply fine-tuning a great design that has won over many users over the years. Remember when you wanted to junk your laptop for a tablet in the past?
Well, not any more. It has been four years since the first Surface Pro tablet-laptop hybrid turned up in Singapore and the latest version will likely wow users again.
The keyboard is impressive with good key travel, a plus for those who type a lot. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
For this year’s model, Microsoft has updated the internal hardware to Intel’s seventh-generation Core chips, just as the chipmaker is looking to unveil the next generation next week.
For many users, that might not matter, since they would be buying the Surface Pro more for its usability than the latest processors. Some might wait, though, for rival PC makers to come up with hybrids similar to Microsoft’s but with the latest chips.
This year’s Surface Pro isn’t shabby, to be fair. With its Intel processors, it promises 50 per cent more battery life than the previous Surface Pro 4.
Plus, the six models available in Singapore mean you can choose from a basic S$1,188 Core m3 model with 4GB RAM and 128GB solid state storage to a top-end one with a Core i7, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage costing S$3,888.
The best bet, I wager, will be the middle of the pack. With an Intel Core i5 and 8GB RAM, you’d be able to run your Photoshop and Illustrator well enough on the go. Plus, 256GB of storage will be handy as well. That costs S$1,788.
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Find The Differences – The Detective For PC (Windows & MAC)
November 5, 2018 By Hasan Abbas Leave a Comment
Find The Differences is a very funny game in which you will become a private investigator who must solve all the cases to which he has been called. If you want to enjoy this fun game and discover what is hidden in each plot, Find The Differences will provide you with research moments where you will have to pay attention to each scenario.
In this spy adventure you will have to go to the calls of your clients that request answer to your questions. In each case you will have to visit a series of scenarios where the suspect is committing his crimes or deception. The mechanics of tinkering is very simple; the screen will be divided into two, the same scenario but with some differences that you will have to know to locate to collect evidence to help you solve the problem.
To gather relevant information to help you solve the case you will have that find the necessary evidence; Click on all the differences of the scenario to advance through the adventure and get decisive evidence that allows you to close the investigation. A good detective has to go to a lot of places to be sure of what happens so you will also have to investigate in depth going to a multitude of places.
In you will have to solve more than twenty cases where you must solve more than a thousand puzzles where you can resort to some clues whenever you get stuck in the search for differences. Become a true researcher in this fun game and show how far you are able to go in each case in this Find The Differences.
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Find The Differences – The Detective on PC (Windows / MAC)
Download and install BlueStacks or Remix OS Player.
Open the installed BlueStacks or Remix OS Player and open the Google Play Store in it.
Now search for “Find The Differences – The Detective” using the Play Store.
Click Find The Differences – The Detective icon to open it, follow the on-screen instructions to play it.
You can also download Find The Differences – The Detective APK and installs via APK in the BlueStacks Android emulator.
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9 Heartbreaking Goodbyes Between Pets And Their Owners
1. This Horse Saying Goodbye To Best Friend At His Funeral Will Break Your Heart
Wagner Figueiredo de Lima and his horse Sereno were best friends, until the Brazilian man’s sudden death in a traffic accident earlier this week. Knowing that the horse meant a world to him, Lima’s brother Wando decided to take Sereno to his owner’s funeral. “It was as if the horse knew what was happening and wanted to say goodbye,” Wando told Globo News.
“[Sereno] began to walk around the coffin, smelling the coffin. Then he neighed,” funeral attendee Kyioshi Abreu commented to The Dodo. “It was a very strong emotion. Everyone who was there was moved. I cried myself when I saw that scene.”
Next thing the horse stopped and placed his head against the coffin, making for a final farewell. “All the way to the cemetery, he would whimper and beat with his hooves on the ground,” says late man’s brother.
This is just one of the examples that animals also mourn. The grieving horse will be staying with Wando’s family as he promised himself to provide Sereno with a loving home. The man added: “This horse was everything to him”.
2. Heartbreaking Photos Show Six-Year-Old Girl Saying Goodbye To Her Dying Pet Dog
Heartbreaking Photos Show Six-Year-Old girl Saying Goodbye To Her Dying Pet Dog
These are the heartbreaking pictures of a little girl spending the last moments, with her pet dog who has been by her side since she was born. With tears in her eyes and her head touching his, the youngster can be seen saying goodbye to her bulldog before gently stroking his head, moments before he passed away.
The young girl, Lynn Bakker, from Den Helder in Holland had spent much of her time with her 13-year-old pet Jaden, since the moment she was born. Their friendship was so special, it had even been documented around the world. But at the grand old age of 13, Jaden was deaf, almost blind and unable to walk. Lynn's father Jeffrey took him to a vet and was left with no choice but to have the pet put down, and he died earlier this month, one day after Lynn's birthday.
Mr Bakker said: 'Lynn could do everything with Jaden, he let her do anything, sit on him, put accessories on him which led to some very funny photos. 'But sadly Jaden had become very old, he was 13-and-a-half and barely able to walk any more, we had to put him down.
3. A kiss from a giraffe for dying zookeeper as he is wheeled in his hospital bed to say a final farewell to the animals he cared for
This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo.
The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who has terminal cancer, asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo.
In a heartbreaking scene, one of the giraffes then approached the man, known only as Mario, and gave him a tender kiss goodbye.
4. Last year the charity took a terminally-ill 86-year-old man back to his farm in Oss, Holland, to say goodbye to his ponies
‘It was very nice that we were able to work on the last wish of this man,' Mr Veldboer said.
The Ambulance Wish Foundation is a charity whose volunteers specialise in taking non-mobile terminally ill patients fulfill their dying wishes.
The organization was founded in 2007 by Veldboer, who also drives the company's fleet of ambulances to take patients wherever they wish to go.
The ambulances are specifically designed with long windows so patients could watch the world go by while they were being transported.
Last year the charity took a terminally-ill 86-year-old man back to his farm in Oss, Holland, to say goodbye to his ponies.
5. Young boy has sad farewell to pet goldfish
Saying goodbye to a family pet is one of the hardest things in life, and pet fish are no different. A little boy decided to say farewell to his pet fish "Top" with the classic bathroom funeral. It didn't go so well. Luckily his mom was prepared with a big hug when the tears started flowing.
6. This is the heartbreaking moment a pet dog says goodbye to her dying owner
This is the heartbreaking moment that a dog was allowed to say a final goodbye to her dying owner in hospital.
Ryan Jessen, from California, thought he had a migraine but was hospitalized with a ventricular brain hemorrhage last month and did not recover.
His sister Michelle Jessen has revealed the moment hospital staff allowed Ryan’s pet boxer Mollie to join the rest of the family in saying goodbye.
Posting a video of the emotional moment on Facebook, she wrote: “The hospital did the sweetest thing for us and allowed us to bring my brother’s dog in to “say goodbye” so she’d know why her human never came home. If you knew my brother, he really loved his sweet dog.
“So many people have asked – He thought he had a migraine, but it was a ventricular brain hemorrhage. They think it was brought on by high blood pressure, and there’s speculation that his frequent consumption of energy drinks may have contributed.”
She added: “THANK YOU to everybody for the outpouring of support, but I won’t be responding anymore. We are sincerely touched and humbled by others’ stories, their sharing in our sadness and the kindness of so many people.”
Michelle added a note of reassurance to anyone who might have been concerned for the dog’s future, saying: “Don’t worry about the dog! We’re keeping her!!! She’s part of the family.”
Since his death, Ryan’s organs have been donated, with Michelle posting that a 17-year-old boy from California, whose birthday is on Christmas Day, was set to receive his heart.
She wrote: “As sad as it is to lose Ryan, we know his heart is going to bring so much joy to the family of the recipient.
“I wish Ryan could know what a difference his heart will make for that young man.”
7. Police dog bids touching farewell to fallen human partner
A photo demonstrating the bond between a man and his dog is breaking hearts across the Internet.
The picture shows Figo, a K-9 officer, paying his last respects at the funeral of his fallen human partner, Kentucky police officer Jason Ellis. In the photo, Figo lays a paw on Ellis’s casket. The 33-year-old Ellis was killed in a suspected ambush.
The picture generated hundreds of comments after being posted on Reddit.
"Dogs can actually smell when someone or something is dead and it gives them closure. Not sure if he can tell it's him through the coffin, but he should," wrote one Reddit user.
Figo was retired after his partner’s death and is now living with Ellis’ family. Bardstown, Ky., police chief Rick McCubbin told the Associated Press said that the dog and Ellis were “true partners."
8. Heartbreaking pictures guaranteed to move EVERY pet owner to tears: Woman treats her dying dog to fun-packed final day before taking her to the vets and saying goodbye...
A heartbreaking series of pictures capture the moment a pet owner treated her dying dog to a fun-packed final day before taking the beloved animal to the veterinarian and saying a final goodbye.
An Imgur user shared 26 images of the dog, which appears to be an American pit bull terrier, enjoying some of her favorite things alongside her owner.
Entitled 'Dogs are too amazing to let go, but sometimes it happens and they will forgive you', the first photo shows the dog sitting in the front seat of a car holding her head down low.
'I don't know if she knows or not,' the pet owner wrote over the photo.
The next image shows the dog giving her best expression of sad, puppy dog eyes to the camera, with the caption: 'She trusts me to make a choice. No matter how hard it might be.'
With her head turned back towards the road, the poor dog has closed her eyes in the next photo, appearing to be exhausted.
'But I know she's tired,' the female pet owner wrote over the heartbreaking photo.
The next snap shows the sweet dog sticking her head out of the window during the car trip.
'The stairs are hard. The hills are mountains. The pills don't work,' the pet owner wrote over the photo.
'But if I have to make that choice. Then let's make the last day the best one yet,' she said in two photos of the dog who still looks sad in the eyes.
In making the dog's last day the best, the owner first treats her to some pampering and captured a few images of her being washed at a local Pet Smart store.
'Aroma therapy to make you relax and feel amazing too,' her owner wrote over an image of her all soapy with suds.
After receiving treatment, the dog had a heart-shaped 'beauty mark' put onto her coat for a little decoration.
Next up, it was time for a meal in the shape of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
'One last delicious meal,' the pet owner wrote over one of the images showing her dog chowing down on what appears to be a cheeseburger from the fast food restaurant.
The next photo shows a young boy and girl as they say their goodbyes to the dog who appears even sadder at the prospect of leaving them.
But the dog cheers up in the next few images, as she sports a pink bandanna around her neck while playing with an old friend - another dog.
The two are seen smiling as they sit and stand next to each other for the final time.
She's treated to a little more pampering while 'enjoying the cool air' outside her owner paints her nails with a pink colored polish to match the pink bandanna.
'She's my pretty old girl,' the owner captioned an image of her dog all dolled up.
The second to last photo in the series shows the dog in the car with owner, as they ride to the vet clinic.
And the last photo is heartbreaking. The owner can be seen tightly hugging the dog as its life slips away.
The photo series coincides with National Dog Day, celebrated August 26 in the United States.
9. Cat appears to 'hold hands' with owners on final trip to vet
A precious cat named Little Andrew captured hundreds of feline-loving hearts across the internet recently, when a touching photo of the kitty, who appears to be a Russian blue, showed his paw “holding” his owners’ hands.
His guardian, Reddit user “abherna3," captioned the photo on the popular online message board: “He held our hands on his last trip to the vet. Little Andrew was much stronger than his mom and I.” The user responded to the outpouring of sympathy from other Reddit feline aficionados after the post went viral.
The cat’s loving “parent” also shared that the 15 1/2-year-old pet "loved everyone," but had gotten sick over the past year. "He purred every day of his life and when he lost that, I knew it was time," wrote abherna3. "Always sad to lose a friend. Sorry for everybody else's losses as well.”
Reddit readers responded in kind. “Oh man, that made me tear up, rest in peace little kitty," wrote one commenter. “This just made me cry," wrote another. "What a touching moment. Condolences to you and your family.”
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In a year filled with corruption trials, advocates see potential for reform
First half of 2018 could see a different noteworthy trial launched every month
Matthew Hamilton
Jan. 4, 2018 Updated: Jan. 4, 2018 4:32 p.m.
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2of6Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his 2018 State of the State Address at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center Tuesday Jan. 3, 2018 in Albany, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)John Carl D'AnnibaleShow MoreShow Less
3of6Joseph Percoco, center, leaves Federal court with his attorneys Barry Bohrer, left, and Michael Yaeger, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in New York. The U.S. Attorney?s office in Manhattan has filed a response in federal court challenging accusations from a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that the prosecution withheld key evidence in the aide?s upcoming corruption trial. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Mary AltafferShow MoreShow Less
4of6SUNY Polytechnic Institute Founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros leaves Albany City Courthouse following his arraignment on state charges on Friday morning, Sept. 23, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will WaldronShow MoreShow Less
5of6FILE - In this Thursday, May 12, 2016, file photo, former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos, center, leaves court in New York. New York voters in November 2017 will decide whether to allow judges to strip the pensions of corrupt officials. Calls to crack down on corruption in New York picked up momentum after both Democratic Speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos were convicted of corruption, though the convictions have since been reversed because of a U.S. Supreme Court verdict. Regardless, the pensions they had coming for their years of service ?— nearly $100,000 a year for Skelos and $85,000 to $98,000 a year for Silver ?— were never imperiled. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) ORG XMIT: NYAG709Seth WenigShow MoreShow Less
6of6FILE - In this May 3, 2016, file photo, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves court in New York. New York voters will in November 2017 decide whether to allow judges to strip the pensions of corrupt officials. Calls to crack down on corruption in New York picked up momentum after both Silver and Republican Senate Leader Dean Skelos were convicted of corruption, though the convictions have since been reversed because of a U.S. Supreme Court verdict. The pensions they had coming for their years of service ?— nearly $100,000 a year for Skelos and $85,000 to $98,000 a year for Silver ?— were never imperiled. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) ORG XMIT: NYAG708Seth WenigShow MoreShow Less
ALBANY — Good-government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.
A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a 2018 agenda that includes reforms that didn't pass last year, the advocates on Thursday detailed their own slate of priorities. They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for "lump-sum" budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.
Now is the time to enact reforms, the advocates say, because high-profile government corruption trials are scheduled to begin each of the first six months of the year.
"It could turn out that all the individuals involved in this will turn out innocent," said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. "But it will paint a negative picture of politics in New York in terms of the revelations that come out of these cases — in many of the same ways as the Bridge-gate case in New Jersey had nothing to do really, as it turns out, with Gov. (Chris) Christie — but it painted a bad picture of how that administration was dealing with its political foes."
The New York trials will touch the executive and legislative branches of state government, as well as local governments. First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts. The governor has not been implicated in the alleged corruption.
Also scheduled for trial this year are former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros. Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos are both facing retrial after their separate corruption convictions were overturned on appeal. Former state Sen. George Maziarz is facing trial for alleged campaign-related corruption, and former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is being prosecuted for charges of local government corruption.
Cuomo's ethics agenda includes limiting outside income for lawmakers and enacting term limits for state elected officials through constitutional amendments. He has also proposed closing the so-called limited liability company loophole that allows contributors to skirt maximum political donation limits; and enacting procurement reforms aimed at safeguarding against corruption. Those proposals were pushed by the governor last year but stalled in the Legislature.
"Like fine wine, some proposals need aging," Horner said. "This year is the year we pop the cork because of these corruption cases."
Last year, Horner repeatedly noted that Albany was failing to take advantage of a "Watergate moment" presented by the back-to-back convictions of Skelos and Silver in late 2015.
Cuomo also is proposing election reforms, including early voting and more stringent reporting of who is behind digital political ads.
Jennifer Wilson of the state League of Women Voters said her group supports the election reforms, but "all of them need money, and time will tell whether or not he's going to put money in."
It's unclear if ]state lawmakers will embrace Cuomo's ethics package.
"I don't see us changing where we are on the things that we said we would always support," Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters Wednesday. "But, remember, you need an agreement (from) both houses of the Legislature."
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Trump attacks mail-in voting fraud — but election officials say it's safe
By Kelly Woo 03 August 2020
President Trump tweeted a threat to file a lawsuit against Nevada's mail-in voting plan
(Image credit: Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump has issued a new attack against mail-in voting on Twitter. This time, he is threatening a lawsuit against Nevada, which passed a bill to send mail-in ballots to all voters ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election. More states are expanding vote-by-mail policies to make voting safer during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Trump has been railing against mail-in voting for months. Last week, at a press conference, he said, without evidence, "Mail-in ballots will lead to the greatest fraud." But many election officials across the country have disputed his claims that vote-by-mail ballots lead to fraud.
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Last week, Trump also floated the possibility of delaying the election because mail-in voting would lead to inaccurate and fraudulent results. However, the president has no power to delay or cancel the election; the Constitution gives that power solely to Congress.
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???July 30, 2020
Even Trump's staunchest Republican allies, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, did not support the president's proposal to delay the election.
The mail-in voting fraud fight
Election officials have repeatedly and consistently debunked Trump's claims that mail-in voting leads to fraud. ABC News reported that nearly 30 secretaries of state and elections board offices expressed no doubts in their ability to maintain the integrity of the November election. They said their states have unique security protocols and systems, such as signature verification software, registration vetting, and ballots with bar codes unique to registered voters.
In the case of Nevada, Trump is threatening to sue the state for a new bill passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature. It allows Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak to order the secretary of state (currently Republican Barbara Cegavske) to adjust election procedures during a state of emergency. The bill also expands who can vote by mail.
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Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and many other top administration officials use absentee ballots to vote themselves. Trump and other Republicans have tried to draw a distinction between absentee ballots and mail-in voting, though they are the same thing. But Republicans have a problem with universal voting by mail.
Tim Murtaugh, Trump campaign spokesman, told CNN, "It is now the stated goal of Democrats to eliminate protections for election integrity, such as universally mailing a ballot to every registered voter, whether they asked for one or not. They also want to eliminate signature matching and clear the way for ballot harvesting, which are also wide open opportunities for fraud."
It is true that mail-in voting may be deployed on a scale never used before, due to the pandemic. In 2016, 24% of all ballots were cast by mail, according to federal data. Experts expect that will significantly increase in this election. Before this year, five states had universal mail-in voting. Now, with Nevada's new law, there are eight.
Washington is one of those five states that adopted universal mail-in voting pre-pandemic. Secretary of State Kim Wyman told NPR that in the 2018 election, only 142 cases of voter fraud were found out of 3.2 million ballots. "So is it perfect? No, but it's not rampant voter fraud either," Wyman said.
U.S. Postal Service delays and mail-in voting
In addition to the states that have universal-mail in voting, 29 other states allow "no excuse" absentee voting. That means a registered voter can request an absentee ballot (and mail it in) without having to provide an excuse, like being sick or taking a trip.
But with so many states expanding vote-by-mail, that means a heavier load on the U.S. Postal Service — at a time when it's already strained by years of financial difficulties. The head of the union recently warned of significant mail delays due to new procedures implemented by Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
The delays and increased financial strain that have plagued the U.S. Postal Service throughout the pandemic could also lend to the problems that may arise from expanded mail-in voting. Trump has also waged war agains the Postal Service for years, mostly about the rate it charges Amazon.
With an increase in mail-in voting, current delays will be exacerbated. Wyman said, "I'm very concerned that delays in postal delivery is going to have a negative effect on absentee ballots and vote by mail elections."
In his eulogy for Civil Rights pioneer, Congressman John Lewis, former President Barack Obama decried the administration for "attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick."
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol IV): The Tempest (TPB)
After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture – the biggest cross-continuity ‘universe’ that is conceivable – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.
Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2,996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero’s Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children’s comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST. -- a 232-page full-color softcover graphic novel, 6 5/8" x 10 3/8"
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Excerpts from the Stormlight Archive
Read an Excerpt from Words of Radiance: Chapters Six, Eight, and Nine
Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:00pm 186 comments 1 Favorite [+]
More Chapters from Words of Radiance:
Interlude I-9: “Lift” - January 21, 2014
Chapters One & Two - January 21, 2014
Chapters Three, Four & Five - January 21, 2014
Chapters Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, & Interlude I-1 - January 21, 2014
Tor.com is pleased to offer the following excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance, book two of The Stormlight Archive. Be sure to check back for further excerpts and sneak peeks in the weeks to come, leading up to the book’s release on March 4th!
Following the events of The Way of Kings, Sanderson returns us to the remarkable world of Roshar, where the war between humans and the enigmatic Parshendi will move into a new, dangerous phase.
Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains in a bold attempt to finally end the war. Shallan is set on finding the legendary and perhaps mythical city of Urithiru, which Jasnah believes holds a secret vital to mankind’s survival on Roshar. Kaladin struggles to wear the mantle of the Windrunners as his old demons resurface. And the threat of the Voidbringers’ return hangs over them all…
Also, we’ve opened up a spoiler thread here for discussion of the new chapters.
We had never considered that there might be Parshendi spies hiding among our slaves. This is something else I should have seen.
—From the journal of Navani Kholin, Jesesan 1174
Shallan sat again on her box on the ship’s deck, though she now wore a hat on her head, a coat over her dress, and a glove on her freehand—her safehand was, of course, pinned inside its sleeve.
The chill out here on the open ocean was something unreal. The captain said that far to the south, the ocean itself actually froze. That sounded incredible; she’d like to see it. She’d occasionally seen snow and ice in Jah Keved, during the odd winter. But an entire ocean of it? Amazing.
She wrote with gloved fingers as she observed the spren she’d named Pattern. At the moment, he had lifted himself up off the surface of the deck, forming a ball of swirling blackness—infinite lines that twisted in ways she could never have captured on the flat page. Instead, she wrote descriptions supplemented with sketches.
“Food…” Pattern said. The sound had a buzzing quality and he vibrated when he spoke.
“Yes,” Shallan said. “We eat it.” She selected a small limafruit from the bowl beside her and placed it in her mouth, then chewed and swallowed.
“Eat,” Pattern said. “You… make it… into you.”
“Yes! Exactly.”
He dropped down, the darkness vanishing as he entered the wooden deck of the ship. Once again, he became part of the material—making the wood ripple as if it were water. He slid across the floor, then moved up the box beside her to the bowl of small green fruits. Here, he moved across them, each fruit’s rind puckering and rising with the shape of his pattern.
“Terrible!” he said, the sound vibrating up from the bowl.
“Terrible?”
“Destruction!”
“What? No, it’s how we survive. Everything needs to eat.”
“Terrible destruction to eat!” He sounded aghast. He retreated from the bowl to the deck.
Pattern connects increasingly complex thoughts, Shallan wrote. Abstractions come easily to him. Early, he asked me the questions “Why? Why you? Why be?” I interpreted this as asking me my purpose. When I replied, “To find truth,” he easily seemed to grasp my meaning. And yet, some simple realities—such as why people would need to eat—completely escape him. It—
She stopped writing as the paper puckered and rose, Pattern appearing on the sheet itself, his tiny ridges lifting the letters she had just penned.
“Why this?” he asked.
“To remember.”
“Remember,” he said, trying the word.
“It means…” Stormfather. How did she explain memory? “It means to be able to know what you did in the past. In other moments, ones that happened days ago.”
“Remember,” he said. “I… cannot… remember…”
“What is the first thing you do remember?” Shallan asked. “Where were you first?”
“First,” Pattern said. “With you.”
“On the ship?” Shallan said, writing.
“No. Green. Food. Food not eaten.”
“Plants?” Shallan asked.
“Yes. Many plants.” He vibrated, and she thought she could hear in that vibration the blowing of wind through branches. Shallan breathed in. She could almost see it. The deck in front of her changing to a dirt path, her box becoming a stone bench. Faintly. Not really there, but almost. Her father’s gardens. Pattern on the ground, drawn in the dust…
“Remember,” Pattern said, voice like a whisper.
No, Shallan thought, horrified. NO!
The image vanished. It hadn’t really been there in the first place, had it? She raised her safehand to her breast, breathing in and out in sharp gasps. No.
“Hey, young miss!” Yalb said from behind. “Tell the new kid here what happened in Kharbranth!”
Shallan turned, heart still racing, to see Yalb walking over with the “new kid,” a six-foot-tall hulk of a man who was at least five years Yalb’s senior. They’d picked him up at Amydlatn, the last port. Tozbek wanted to be sure they wouldn’t be undermanned during the last leg to New Natanan.
Yalb squatted down beside her stool. In the face of the chill, he’d acquiesced to wearing a shirt with ragged sleeves and a kind of headband that wrapped over his ears.
“Brightness?” Yalb asked. “You all right? You look like you swallowed a turtle. And not just the head, neither.”
“I’m well,” Shallan said. “What… what was it you wanted of me, again?”
“In Kharbranth,” Yalb said, thumbing over his shoulder. “Did we or did we not meet the king?”
“We?” Shallan asked. “I met him.”
“And I was your retinue.”
“You were waiting outside.”
“Doesn’t matter none,” Yalb said. “I was your footman for that meeting, eh?”
Footman? He’d led her up to the palace as a favor. “I… guess,” she said. “You did have a nice bow, as I recall.”
“See,” Yalb said, standing and confronting the much larger man. “I mentioned the bow, didn’t I?”
The “new kid” rumbled his agreement.
“So get to washing those dishes,” Yalb said. He got a scowl in response. “Now, don’t give me that,” Yalb said. “I told you, galley duty is something the captain watches closely. If you want to fit in around here, you do it well, and do some extra. It will put you ahead with the captain and the rest of the men. I’m giving you quite the opportunity here, and I’ll have you appreciate it.”
That seemed to placate the larger man, who turned around and went tromping toward the lower decks.
“Passions!” Yalb said. “That fellow is as dun as two spheres made of mud. I worry about him. Somebody’s going to take advantage of him, Brightness.”
“Yalb, have you been boasting again?” Shallan said.
“ ’Tain’t boasting if some of it’s true.”
“Actually, that’s exactly what boasting entails.”
“Hey,” Yalb said, turning toward her. “What were you doing before? You know, with the colors?”
“Colors?” Shallan said, suddenly cold.
“Yeah, the deck turned green, eh?” Yalb said. “I swear I saw it. Has to do with that strange spren, does it?”
“I… I’m trying to determine exactly what kind of spren it is,” Shallan said, keeping her voice even. “It’s a scholarly matter.”
“I thought so,” Yalb said, though she’d given him nothing in the way of an answer. He raised an affable hand to her, then jogged off.
She worried about letting them see Pattern. She’d tried staying in her cabin to keep him a secret from the men, but being cooped up had been too difficult for her, and he didn’t respond to her suggestions that he stay out of their sight. So, during the last four days, she’d been forced to let them see what she was doing as she studied him.
They were understandably discomforted by him, but didn’t say much. Today, they were getting the ship ready to sail all night. Thoughts of the open sea at night unsettled her, but that was the cost of sailing this far from civilization. Two days back, they’d even been forced to weather a storm in a cove along the coast. Jasnah and Shallan had gone ashore to stay in a fortress maintained for the purpose—paying a steep cost to get in—while the sailors had stayed on board.
That cove, though not a true port, had at least had a stormwall to help shelter the ship. Next highstorm, they wouldn’t even have that. They’d find a cove and try to ride out the winds, though Tozbek said he’d send Shallan and Jasnah ashore to seek shelter in a cavern.
She turned back to Pattern, who had shifted into his hovering form. He looked something like the pattern of splintered light thrown on the wall by a crystal chandelier—except he was made of something black instead of light, and he was three-dimensional. So… Maybe not much like that at all.
“Lies,” Pattern said. “Lies from the Yalb.”
“Yes,” Shallan said with a sigh. “Yalb is far too skilled at persuasion for his own good, sometimes.”
Pattern hummed softly. He seemed pleased.
“You like lies?” Shallan asked.
“Good lies,” Pattern said. “That lie. Good lie.”
“What makes a lie good?” Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern’s exact words.
“True lies.”
“Pattern, those two are opposites.”
“Hmmmm… Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.”
Liespren, Jasnah called them, Shallan wrote. A moniker they don’t like, apparently. When I Soulcast for the first time, a voice demanded a truth from me. I still don’t know what that means, and Jasnah has not been forthcoming. She doesn’t seem to know what to make of my experience either. I do not think that voice belonged to Pattern, but I cannot say, as he seems to have forgotten much about himself.
She turned to making a few sketches of Pattern both in his floating and flattened forms. Drawing let her mind relax. By the time she was done, there were several half-remembered passages from her research that she wanted to quote in her notes.
She made her way down the steps belowdecks, Pattern following. He drew looks from the sailors. Sailors were a superstitious lot, and some took him as a bad sign.
In her quarters, Pattern moved up the wall beside her, watching without eyes as she searched for a passage she remembered, which mentioned spren that spoke. Not just windspren and riverspren, which would mimic people and make playful comments. Those were a step up from ordinary spren, but there was yet another level of spren, one rarely seen. Spren like Pattern, who had real conversations with people.
The Nightwatcher is obviously one of these, Alai wrote, Shallan copying the passage. The records of conversations with her—and she is definitely female, despite what rural Alethi folktales would have one believe—are numerous and credible. Shubalai herself, intent on providing a firsthand scholarly report, visited the Nightwatcher and recorded her story word for word.…
Shallan went to another reference, and before long got completely lost in her studies. A few hours later, she closed a book and set it on the table beside her bed. Her spheres were getting dim; they’d go out soon, and would need to be reinfused with Stormlight. Shallan released a contented sigh and leaned back against her bed, her notes from a dozen different sources laid out on the floor of her small chamber.
She felt… satisfied. Her brothers loved the plan of fixing the Soulcaster and returning it, and seemed energized by her suggestion that all was not lost. They thought they could last longer, now that a plan was in place.
Shallan’s life was coming together. How long had it been since she’d just been able to sit and read? Without worried concern for her house, without dreading the need to find a way to steal from Jasnah? Even before the terrible sequence of events that had led to her father’s death, she had always been anxious. That had been her life. She’d seen becoming a true scholar as something unreachable. Stormfather! She’d seen the next town over as being unreachable.
She stood up, gathering her sketchbook and flipping through her pictures of the santhid, including several drawn from the memory of her dip in the ocean. She smiled at that, recalling how she’d climbed back up on deck, dripping wet and grinning. The sailors had all obviously thought her mad.
Now she was sailing toward a city on the edge of the world, betrothed to a powerful Alethi prince, and was free to just learn. She was seeing incredible new sights, sketching them during the days, then reading through piles of books in the nights.
She had stumbled into the perfect life, and it was everything she’d wished for.
Shallan fished in the pocket inside her safehand sleeve, digging out some more spheres to replace those dimming in the goblet. The ones her hand emerged with, however, were completely dun. Not a glimmer of Light in them.
She frowned. These had been restored during the previous highstorm, held in a basket tied to the ship’s mast. The ones in her goblet were two storms old now, which was why they were running out. How had the ones in her pocket gone dun faster? It defied reason.
“Mmmmm…” Pattern said from the wall near her head. “Lies.”
Shallan replaced the spheres in her pocket, then opened the door into the ship’s narrow companionway and moved to Jasnah’s cabin. It was the cabin that Tozbek and his wife usually shared, but they had vacated it for the third—and smallest—of the cabins to give Jasnah the better quarters. People did things like that for her, even when she didn’t ask.
Jasnah would have some spheres for Shallan to use. Indeed, Jasnah’s door was cracked open, swaying slightly as the ship creaked and rocked along its evening path. Jasnah sat at the desk inside, and Shallan peeked in, suddenly uncertain if she wanted to bother the woman.
She could see Jasnah’s face, hand against her temple, staring at the pages spread before her. Jasnah’s eyes were haunted, her expression haggard.
This was not the Jasnah that Shallan was accustomed to seeing. The confidence had been overwhelmed by exhaustion, the poise replaced by worry. Jasnah started to write something, but stopped after just a few words. She set down the pen, closing her eyes and massaging her temples. A few dizzy-looking spren, like jets of dust rising into the air, appeared around Jasnah’s head. Exhaustionspren.
Shallan pulled back, suddenly feeling as if she’d intruded upon an intimate moment. Jasnah with her defenses down. Shallan began to creep away, but a voice from the floor suddenly said, “Truth!”
Startled, Jasnah looked up, eyes finding Shallan—who, of course, blushed furiously.
Jasnah turned her eyes down toward Pattern on the floor, then reset her mask, sitting up with proper posture. “Yes, child?”
“I… I needed spheres…” Shallan said. “Those in my pouch went dun.”
“Have you been Soulcasting?” Jasnah asked sharply.
“What? No, Brightness. I promised I would not.”
“Then it is the second ability,” Jasnah said. “Come in and close that door. I should speak to Captain Tozbek; it won’t latch properly.”
Shallan stepped in, pushing the door closed, though the latch didn’t catch. She stepped forward, hands clasped, feeling embarrassed.
“What did you do?” Jasnah asked. “It involved light, I assume?”
“I seemed to make plants appear,” Shallan said. “Well, really just the color. One of the sailors saw the deck turn green, but it vanished when I stopped thinking about the plants.”
“Yes…” Jasnah said. She flipped through one of her books, stopping at an illustration. Shallan had seen it before; it was as ancient as Vorinism. Ten spheres connected by lines forming a shape like an hourglass on its side. Two of the spheres at the center looked almost like pupils. The Double Eye of the Almighty.
“Ten Essences,” Jasnah said softly. She ran her fingers along the page. “Ten Surges. Ten orders. But what does it mean that the spren have finally decided to return the oaths to us? And how much time remains to me? Not long. Not long…”
“Brightness?” Shallan asked.
“Before your arrival, I could assume I was an anomaly,” Jasnah said. “I could hope that Surgebindings were not returning in large numbers. I no longer have that hope. The Cryptics sent you to me, of that I have no doubt, because they knew you would need training. That gives me hope that I was at least one of the first.”
Jasnah looked up toward Shallan, meeting her eyes with an intense gaze. The woman’s eyes were reddened with fatigue. How late was she working? Every night when Shallan turned in, there was still light coming from under Jasnah’s door.
“To be honest,” Jasnah said, “I don’t understand either.”
“Are you all right?” Shallan asked. “Before I entered, you seemed… distressed.”
Jasnah hesitated just briefly. “I have merely been spending too long at my studies.” She turned to one of her trunks, digging out a dark cloth pouch filled with spheres. “Take these. I would suggest that you keep spheres with you at all times, so that your Surgebinding has the opportunity to manifest.”
“Can you teach me?” Shallan asked, taking the pouch.
“I don’t know,” Jasnah said. “I will try. On this diagram, one of the Surges is known as Illumination, the mastery of light. For now, I would prefer you expend your efforts on learning this Surge, as opposed to Soulcasting. That is a dangerous art, more so now than it once was.”
Shallan nodded, rising. She hesitated before leaving, however. “Are you sure you are well?”
“Of course.” She said it too quickly. The woman was poised, in control, but also obviously exhausted. The mask was cracked, and Shallan could see the truth.
She’s trying to placate me, Shallan realized. Pat me on the head and send me back to bed, like a child awakened by a nightmare.
“You’re worried,” Shallan said, meeting Jasnah’s eyes.
The woman turned away. She pushed a book over something wiggling on her table—a small purple spren. Fearspren. Only one, true, but still.
“No…” Shallan whispered. “You’re not worried. You’re terrified.” Stormfather!
“It is all right, Shallan,” Jasnah said. “I just need some sleep. Go back to your studies.”
Shallan sat down on the stool beside Jasnah’s desk. The older woman looked back at her, and Shallan could see the mask cracking further. Annoyance as Jasnah drew her lips to a line. Tension in the way she held her pen, in a fist.
“You told me I could be part of this,” Shallan said. “Jasnah, if you’re worried about something…”
“My worry is what it has always been,” Jasnah said, leaning back in her chair. “That I will be too late. That I’m incapable of doing anything meaningful to stop what is coming—that I’m trying to stop a highstorm by blowing against it really hard.”
“The Voidbringers,” Shallan said. “The parshmen.”
“In the past,” Jasnah said, “the Desolation—the coming of the Voidbringers—was supposedly always marked by a return of the Heralds to prepare mankind. They would train the Knights Radiant, who would experience a rush of new members.”
“But we captured the Voidbringers,” Shallan said. “And enslaved them.” That was what Jasnah postulated, and Shallan agreed, having seen the research. “So you think a kind of revolution is coming. That the parshmen will turn against us as they did in the past.”
“Yes,” Jasnah said, rifling through her notes. “And soon. Your proving to be a Surgebinder does not comfort me, as it smacks too much of what happened before. But back then, new knights had teachers to train them, generations of tradition. We have nothing.”
“The Voidbringers are captive,” Shallan said, glancing toward Pattern. He rested on the floor, almost invisible, saying nothing. “The parshmen can barely communicate. How could they possibly stage a revolution?”
Jasnah found the sheet of paper she’d been seeking and handed it to Shallan. Written in Jasnah’s own hand, it was an account by a captain’s wife of a plateau assault on the Shattered Plains.
“Parshendi,” Jasnah said, “can sing in time with one another no matter how far they are separated. They have some ability to communicate that we do not understand. I can only assume that their cousins the parshmen have the same. They may not need to hear a call to action in order to revolt.”
Shallan read the report, nodding slowly. “We need to warn others, Jasnah.”
“You don’t think I’ve tried?” Jasnah asked. “I’ve written to scholars and kings all around the world. Most dismiss me as paranoid. The evidence you readily accept, others call flimsy.
“The ardents were my best hope, but their eyes are clouded by the interference of the Hierocracy. Besides, my personal beliefs make ardents skeptical of anything I say. My mother wants to see my research, which is something. My brother and uncle might believe, and that is why we are going to them.” She hesitated. “There is another reason we seek the Shattered Plains. A way to find evidence that might convince everyone.”
“Urithiru,” Shallan said. “The city you seek?”
Jasnah gave her another curt glance. The ancient city was something Shallan had first learned about by secretly reading Jasnah’s notes.
“You still blush too easily when confronted,” Jasnah noted.
“And apologize too easily as well.”
“I’m… uh, indignant?”
Jasnah smiled, picking up the representation of the Double Eye. She stared at it. “There is a secret hidden somewhere on the Shattered Plains. A secret about Urithiru.”
“You told me the city wasn’t there!”
“It isn’t. But the path to it may be.” Her lips tightened. “According to legend, only a Knight Radiant could open the way.”
“Fortunately, we know two of those.”
“Again, you are not a Radiant, and neither am I. Being able to replicate some of the things they could do may not matter. We don’t have their traditions or knowledge.”
“We’re talking about the potential end of civilization itself, aren’t we?” Shallan asked softly.
Jasnah hesitated.
“The Desolations,” Shallan said. “I know very little, but the legends…”
“In the aftermath of each one, mankind was broken. Great cities in ashes, industry smashed. Each time, knowledge and growth were reduced to an almost prehistoric state—it took centuries of rebuilding to restore civilization to what it had been before.” She hesitated. “I keep hoping that I’m wrong.”
“Urithiru,” Shallan said. She tried to refrain from just asking questions, trying instead to reason her way to the answer. “You said the city was a kind of base or home to the Knights Radiant. I hadn’t heard of it before speaking with you, and so can guess that it’s not commonly referred to in the literature. Perhaps, then, it is one of the things that the Hierocracy suppressed knowledge of?”
“Very good,” Jasnah said. “Although I think that it had begun to fade into legend even before then, the Hierocracy did not help.”
“So if it existed before the Hierocracy, and if the pathway to it was locked at the fall of the Radiants… then it might contain records that have not been touched by modern scholars. Unaltered, unchanged lore about the Voidbringers and Surgebinding.” Shallan shivered. “That’s why we’re really going to the Shattered Plains.”
Jasnah smiled through her fatigue. “Very good indeed. My time in the Palanaeum was very useful, but also in some ways disappointing. While I confirmed my suspicions about the parshmen, I also found that many of the great library’s records bore the same signs of tampering as others I’d read. This ‘cleansing’ of history, removing direct references to Urithiru or the Radiants because they were embarrassments to Vorinism—it’s infuriating. And people ask me why I am hostile to the church! I need primary sources. And then, there are stories—ones I dare to believe—claiming that Urithiru was holy and protected from the Voidbringers. Maybe that was wishful fancy, but I am not too much a scholar to hope that something like that might be true.”
“And the parshmen?”
“We will try to persuade the Alethi to rid themselves of those.”
“Not an easy task.”
“A nearly impossible one,” Jasnah said, standing. She began to pack her books away for the night, putting them in her waterproofed trunk. “Parshmen are such perfect slaves. Docile, obedient. Our society has become far too reliant upon them. The parshmen wouldn’t need to turn violent to throw us into chaos—though I’m certain that is what’s coming—they could simply walk away. It would cause an economic crisis.”
She closed the trunk after removing one volume, then turned back to Shallan. “Convincing everyone of what I say is beyond us without more evidence. Even if my brother listens, he doesn’t have the authority to force the highprinces to get rid of their parshmen. And, in all honesty, I fear my brother won’t be brave enough to risk the collapse expelling the parshmen might cause.”
“But if they turn on us, the collapse will come anyway.”
“Yes,” Jasnah said. “You know this, and I know it. My mother might believe it. But the risk of being wrong is so immense that… well, we will need evidence—overwhelming and irrefutable evidence. So we find the city. At all costs, we find that city.”
Shallan nodded.
“I did not want to lay all of this upon your shoulders, child,” Jasnah said, sitting back down. “However, I will admit that it is a relief to speak of these things to someone who doesn’t challenge me on every other point.”
“We’ll do it, Jasnah,” Shallan said. “We’ll travel to the Shattered Plains and we’ll find Urithiru. We’ll get the evidence and convince everyone to listen.”
“Ah, the optimism of youth,” Jasnah said. “That is nice to hear on occasion too.” She handed the book to Shallan. “Among the Knights Radiant, there was an order known as the Lightweavers. I know precious little about them, but of all the sources I’ve read, this one has the most information.”
Shallan took the volume eagerly. Words of Radiance, the title read. “Go,” Jasnah said. “Read.”
Shallan glanced at her.
“I will sleep,” Jasnah promised, a smile creeping to her lips. “And stop trying to mother me. I don’t even let Navani do that.”
Shallan sighed, nodding, and left Jasnah’s quarters. Pattern tagged along behind; he’d spent the entire conversation silent. As she entered her cabin, she found herself much heavier of heart than when she’d left it. She couldn’t banish the image of terror in Jasnah’s eyes. Jasnah Kholin shouldn’t fear anything, should she?
Shallan crawled onto her cot with the book she’d been given and the pouch of spheres. Part of her was eager to begin, but she was exhausted, her eyelids drooping. It really had gotten late. If she started the book now…
Perhaps better to get a good night’s sleep, then dig refreshed into a new day’s studies. She set the book on the small table beside her bed, curled up, and let the rocking of the boat coax her to sleep.
She awoke to screams, shouts, and smoke.
The familiar scraping of wood as a bridge slid into place. The stomping of feet in unison, first a flat sound on stone, then the ringing thump of boots on wood. The distant calls of scouts, shouting back the all-clear.
The sounds of a plateau run were familiar to Dalinar. Once, he had craved these sounds. He’d been impatient between runs, longing for the chance to strike down Parshendi with his Blade, to win wealth and recognition.
That Dalinar had been seeking to cover up his shame—the shame of lying slumped in a drunken stupor while his brother fought an assassin.
The setting of a plateau run was uniform: bare, jagged rocks, mostly the same dull color as the stone surface they sat on, broken only by the occasional cluster of closed rockbuds. Even those, as their name implied, could be mistaken for more rocks. There was nothing but more of the same from here where you stood, all the way out to the far horizon; and everything you’d brought with you, everything human, was dwarfed by the vastness of these endless, fractured plains and deadly chasms.
Over the years, this activity had become rote. Marching beneath that white sun like molten steel. Crossing gap after gap. Eventually, plateau runs had become less something to anticipate and more a dogged obligation. For Gavilar and glory, yes, but mainly because they—and the enemy— were here. This was what you did.
The scents of a plateau run were the scents of a great stillness: baked stone, dried crem, long-traveled winds.
Most recently, Dalinar was coming to detest plateau runs. They were a frivolity, a waste of life. They weren’t about fulfilling the Vengeance Pact, but about greed. Many gemhearts appeared on the near plateaus, convenient to reach. Those didn’t sate the Alethi. They had to reach farther, toward assaults that cost dearly.
Ahead, Highprince Aladar’s men fought on a plateau. They had arrived before Dalinar’s army, and the conflict told a familiar story. Men against Parshendi, fighting in a sinuous line, each army trying to shove the other back. The humans could field far more men than the Parshendi, but the Parshendi could reach plateaus faster and secure them quickly.
The scattered bodies of bridgemen on the staging plateau, leading up to the chasm, attested to the danger of charging an entrenched foe. Dalinar did not miss the dark expressions on his bodyguards’ faces as they surveyed the dead. Aladar, like most of the other highprinces, used Sadeas’s philosophy on bridge runs. Quick, brutal assaults that treated manpower as an expendable resource. It hadn’t always been this way. In the past, bridges had been carried by armored troops, but success bred imitation.
The warcamps needed a constant influx of cheap slaves to feed the monster. That meant a growing plague of slavers and bandits roaming the Unclaimed Hills, trading in flesh. Another thing I’ll have to change, Dalinar thought.
Aladar himself didn’t fight, but had instead set up a command center on an adjacent plateau. Dalinar pointed toward the flapping banner, and one of his large mechanical bridges rolled into place. Pulled by chulls and full of gears, levers, and cams, the bridges protected the men who worked them. They were also very slow. Dalinar waited with self-disciplined patience as the workers ratcheted the bridge down, spanning the chasm between this plateau and the one where Aladar’s banner flew.
Once the bridge was in position and locked, his bodyguard—led by one of Captain Kaladin’s darkeyed officers—trotted onto it, spears to shoulders. Dalinar had promised Kaladin his men would not have to fight except to defend him. Once they were across, Dalinar kicked Gallant into motion to cross to Aladar’s command plateau. Dalinar felt too light on the stallion’s back—the lack of Shardplate. In the many years since he’d obtained his suit, he’d never gone out onto a battlefield without it.
Today, however, he didn’t ride to battle—not truly. Behind him, Adolin’s own personal banner flew, and he led the bulk of Dalinar’s armies to assault the plateau where Aladar’s men already fought. Dalinar didn’t send any orders regarding how the assault should go. His son had been trained well, and he was ready to take battlefield command—with General Khal at his side, of course, for advice.
Yes, from now on, Adolin would lead the battles.
Dalinar would change the world.
He rode toward Aladar’s command tent. This was the first plateau run following his proclamation requiring the armies to work together. The fact that Aladar had come, as commanded, and Roion had not—even though the target plateau was closest to Roion’s warcamp—was a victory unto itself. A small encouragement, but Dalinar would take what he could get.
He found Highprince Aladar watching from a small pavilion set up on a secure, raised part of this plateau overlooking the battlefield. A perfect location for a command post. Aladar was a Shardbearer, though he commonly lent his Plate and Blade to one of his officers during battles, preferring to lead tactically from behind the battle lines. A practiced Shardbearer could mentally command a Blade to not dissolve when he let go of it, though—in an emergency—Aladar could summon it to himself, making it vanish from the hands of his officer in an eyeblink, then appear in his own hands ten heartbeats later. Loaning a Blade required a great deal of trust on both sides.
Dalinar dismounted. His horse, Gallant, glared at the groom who tried to take him, and Dalinar patted the horse on the neck. “He’ll be fine on his own, son,” he said to the groom. Most common grooms didn’t know what to do with one of the Ryshadium anyway.
Trailed by his bridgeman guards, Dalinar joined Aladar, who stood at the edge of the plateau, overseeing the battlefield ahead and just below. Slender and completely bald, the man had skin a darker tan than most Alethi. He stood with hands behind his back, and wore a sharp traditional uniform with a skirtlike takama, though he wore a modern jacket above it, cut to match the takama.
It was a style Dalinar had never seen before. Aladar also wore a thin mustache and a tuft of hair beneath his lip, again an unconventional choice. Aladar was powerful enough, and renowned enough, to make his own fashion—and he did so, often setting trends.
“Dalinar,” Aladar said, nodding to him. “I thought you weren’t going to fight on plateau runs any longer.”
“I’m not,” Dalinar said, nodding toward Adolin’s banner. There, soldiers streamed across Dalinar’s bridges to join the battle. The plateau was small enough that many of Aladar’s men had to withdraw to make way, something they were obviously all too eager to do.
“You almost lost this day,” Dalinar noted. “It is well that you had support.” Below, Dalinar’s troops restored order to the battlefield and pushed against the Parshendi.
“Perhaps,” Aladar said. “Yet in the past, I was victorious in one out of three assaults. Having support will mean I win a few more, certainly, but will also cost half my earnings. Assuming the king even assigns me any. I’m not convinced that I’ll be better off in the long run.”
“But this way, you lose fewer men,” Dalinar said. “And the total winnings for the entire army will rise. The honor of the—”
“Don’t talk to me about honor, Dalinar. I can’t pay my soldiers with honor, and I can’t use it to keep the other highprinces from snapping at my neck. Your plan favors the weakest among us and undercuts the successful.”
“Fine,” Dalinar snapped, “honor has no value to you. You will still obey, Aladar, because your king demands it. That is the only reason you need. You will do as told.”
“Or?” Aladar said.
“Ask Yenev.”
Aladar started as if slapped. Ten years back, Highprince Yenev had refused to accept the unification of Alethkar. At Gavilar’s order, Sadeas had dueled the man. And killed him.
“Threats?” Aladar asked.
“Yes.” Dalinar turned to look the shorter man in the eyes. “I’m done cajoling, Aladar. I’m done asking. When you disobey Elhokar, you mock my brother and what he stood for. I will have a unified kingdom.”
“Amusing,” Aladar said. “Good of you to mention Gavilar, as he didn’t bring the kingdom together with honor. He did it with knives in the back and soldiers on the field, cutting the heads off any who resisted. Are we back to that again, then? Such things don’t sound much like the fine words of your precious book.”
Dalinar ground his teeth, turning away to watch the battlefield. His first instinct was to tell Aladar he was an officer under Dalinar’s command, and take the man to task for his tone. Treat him like a recruit in need of correction.
But what if Aladar just ignored him? Would he force the man to obey? Dalinar didn’t have the troops for it.
He found himself annoyed—more at himself than at Aladar. He’d come on this plateau run not to fight, but to talk. To persuade. Navani was right. Dalinar needed more than brusque words and military commands to save this kingdom. He needed loyalty, not fear.
But storms take him, how? What persuading he’d done in life, he’d accomplished with a sword in hand and a fist to the face. Gavilar had always been the one with the right words, the one who could make people listen.
Dalinar had no business trying to be a politician.
Half the lads on that battlefield probably didn’t think they had any business being soldiers, at first, a part of him whispered. You don’t have the luxury of being bad at this. Don’t complain. Change.
“The Parshendi are pushing too hard,” Aladar said to his generals. “They want to shove us off the plateau. Tell the men to give a little and let the Parshendi lose their advantage of footing; that will let us surround them.”
The generals nodded, one calling out orders.
Dalinar narrowed his eyes at the battlefield, reading it. “No,” he said softly.
The general stopped giving orders. Aladar glanced at Dalinar.
“The Parshendi are preparing to pull back,” Dalinar said.
“They certainly don’t act like it.”
“They want some room to breathe,” Dalinar said, reading the swirl of combat below. “They nearly have the gemheart harvested. They will continue to push hard, but will break into a quick retreat around the chrysalis to buy time for the final harvesting. That’s what you’ll need to stop.”
The Parshendi surged forward.
“I took point on this run,” Aladar said. “By your own rules, I get final say over our tactics.”
“I observe only,” Dalinar said. “I’m not even commanding my own army today. You may choose your tactics, and I will not interfere.”
Aladar considered, then cursed softly. “Assume Dalinar is correct. Prepare the men for a withdrawal by the Parshendi. Send a strike team forward to secure the chrysalis, which should be almost opened up.”
The generals set up the new details, and messengers raced off with the tactical orders. Aladar and Dalinar watched, side by side, as the Parshendi shoved forward. That singing of theirs hovered over the battlefield.
Then they pulled back, careful as always to respectfully step over the bodies of the dead. Ready for this, the human troops rushed after. Led by Adolin in gleaming Plate, a strike force of fresh troops broke through the Parshendi line and reached the chrysalis. Other human troops poured through the gap they opened, shoving the Parshendi to the flanks, turning the Parshendi withdrawal into a tactical disaster.
In minutes, the Parshendi had abandoned the plateau, jumping away and fleeing.
“Damnation,” Aladar said softly. “I hate that you’re so good at this.”
Dalinar narrowed his eyes, noticing that some of the fleeing Parshendi stopped on a plateau a short distance from the battlefield. They lingered there, though much of their force continued on away.
Dalinar waved for one of Aladar’s servants to hand him a spyglass, then he raised it, focusing on that group. A figure stood at the edge of the plateau out there, a figure in glistening armor.
The Parshendi Shardbearer, he thought. The one from the battle at the Tower. He almost killed me.
Dalinar didn’t remember much from that encounter. He’d been beaten near senseless toward the end of it. This Shardbearer hadn’t participated in today’s battle. Why? Surely with a Shardbearer, they could have opened the chrysalis sooner.
Dalinar felt a disturbing pit inside of him. This one fact, the watching Shardbearer, changed his understanding of the battle entirely. He thought he’d been able to read what was going on. Now it occurred to him that the enemy’s tactics were more opaque than he’d assumed.
“Are some of them still out there?” Aladar asked. “Watching?”
Dalinar nodded, lowering his spyglass.
“Have they done that before in any battle you’ve fought?”
Dalinar shook his head.
Aladar mulled for a moment, then gave orders for his men on the plateau to remain alert, with scouts posted to watch for a surprise return of the Parshendi.
“Thank you,” Aladar added, grudgingly, turning to Dalinar. “Your advice proved helpful.”
“You trusted me when it came to tactics,” Dalinar said, turning to him. “Why not try trusting me in what is best for this kingdom?”
Aladar studied him. Behind, soldiers cheered their victory and Adolin ripped the gemheart free from the chrysalis. Others fanned out to watch for a return attack, but none came.
“I wish I could, Dalinar,” Aladar finally said. “But this isn’t about you. It’s about the other highprinces. Maybe I could trust you, but I’ll never trust them. You’re asking me to risk too much of myself. The others would do to me what Sadeas did to you on the Tower.”
“What if I can bring the others around? What if I can prove to you that they’re worthy of trust? What if I can change the direction of this kingdom, and this war? Will you follow me then?”
“No,” Aladar said. “I’m sorry.” He turned away, calling for his horse.
The trip back was miserable. They’d won the day, but Aladar kept his distance. How could Dalinar do so many things so right, yet still be unable to persuade men like Aladar? And what did it mean that the Parshendi were changing tactics on the battlefield, not committing their Shardbearer? Were they too afraid to lose their Shards?
When, at long last, Dalinar returned to his bunker in the warcamps— after seeing to his men and sending a report to the king—he found an unexpected letter waiting for him.
He sent for Navani to read him the words. Dalinar stood waiting in his private study, staring at the wall that had borne the strange glyphs. Those had been sanded away, the scratches hidden, but the pale patch of stone whispered.
Sixty-two days.
Sixty-two days to come up with an answer. Well, sixty now. Not much time to save a kingdom, to prepare for the worst. The ardents would condemn the prophecy as a prank at best, or blasphemous at worst. To foretell the future was forbidden. It was of the Voidbringers. Even games of chance were suspect, for they incited men to look for the secrets of what was to come.
He believed anyway. For he suspected his own hand had written those words.
Navani arrived and looked over the letter, then started reading aloud. It turned out to be from an old friend who was going to arrive soon on the Shattered Plains—and who might provide a solution to Dalinar’s problems.
Kaladin led the way down into the chasms, as was his right.
They used a rope ladder, as they had in Sadeas’s army. These ladders had been unsavory things, the ropes frayed and stained with moss, the planks battered by far too many highstorms. Kaladin had never lost a man because of those storming ladders, but he’d always worried.
This one was brand new. He knew that for a fact, as Rind the quartermaster had scratched his head at the request, and then had one built to Kaladin’s specifications. It was sturdy and well made, like Dalinar’s army itself.
Kaladin reached the bottom with a final hop. Syl floated down and landed on his shoulder as he held up a sphere to survey the chasm bottom. The single sapphire broam was worth more by itself than the entirety of his wages as a bridgeman.
In Sadeas’s army, the chasms had been a frequent destination for bridgemen. Kaladin still didn’t know if the purpose had been to scavenge every possible resource from the Shattered Plains, or if it had really been about finding something menial—and will-breaking—for bridgemen to do between runs.
The chasm bottom here, however, was untouched. There were no paths cut through the snarl of stormleavings on the ground, and there were no scratched messages or instructions in the lichen on the walls. Like the other chasms, this one opened up like a vase, wider at the bottom than at the cracked top—a result of waters rushing through during highstorms. The floor was relatively flat, smoothed by the hardened sediment of settling crem.
As he moved forward, Kaladin had to pick his way over all kinds of debris. Broken sticks and logs from trees blown in from across the Plains. Cracked rockbud shells. Countless tangles of dried vines, twisted through one another like discarded yarn.
And bodies, of course.
A lot of corpses ended up in the chasms. Whenever men lost their battle to seize a plateau, they had to retreat and leave their dead behind. Storms! Sadeas often left the corpses behind even if he won—and bridgemen he’d leave wounded, abandoned, even if they could have been saved.
After a highstorm, the dead ended up here, in the chasms. And since storms blew westward, toward the warcamps, the bodies washed in this direction. Kaladin found it hard to move without stepping on bones entwined in the accumulated foliage on the chasm floor.
He picked his way through as respectfully as he could as Rock reached the bottom behind him, uttering a quiet phrase in his native tongue. Kaladin couldn’t tell if it was a curse or a prayer. Syl moved from Kaladin’s shoulder, zipping into the air, then streaking in an arc to the ground. There, she formed into what he thought of as her true shape, that of a young woman with a simple dress that frayed to mist just below the knees. She perched on a branch and stared at a femur poking up through the moss.
She didn’t like violence. He wasn’t certain if, even now, she understood death. She spoke of it like a child trying to grasp something beyond her.
“What a mess,” Teft said as he reached the bottom. “Bah! This place hasn’t seen any kind of care at all.”
“It is a grave,” Rock said. “We walk in a grave.”
“All of the chasms are graves,” Teft said, his voice echoing in the dank confines. “This one’s just a messy grave.”
“Hard to find death that isn’t messy, Teft,” Kaladin said.
Teft grunted, then started to greet the new recruits as they reached the bottom. Moash and Skar were watching over Dalinar and his sons as they attended some lighteyed feast—something that Kaladin was glad to be able to avoid. Instead, he’d come with Teft down here.
They were joined by the forty bridgemen—two from each reorganized crew—that Teft was training with the hope that they’d make good sergeants for their own crews.
“Take a good look, lads,” Teft said to them. “This is where we come from. This is why some call us the order of bone. We’re not going to make you go through everything we did, and be glad! We could have been swept away by a highstorm at any moment. Now, with Dalinar Kholin’s stormwardens to guide us, we won’t have nearly as much risk—and we’ll be staying close to the exit just in case…”
Kaladin folded his arms, watching Teft instruct as Rock handed practice spears to the men. Teft himself carried no spear, and though he was shorter than the bridgemen who gathered around him—wearing simple soldiers’ uniforms—they seemed thoroughly intimidated.
What else did you expect? Kaladin thought. They’re bridgemen. A stiff breeze could quell them.
Still, Teft looked completely in control. Comfortably so. This was right. Something about it was just… right.
A swarm of small glowing orbs materialized around Kaladin’s head, spren the shape of golden spheres that darted this way and that. He started, looking at them. Gloryspren. Storms. He felt as if he hadn’t seen the like in years.
Syl zipped up into the air and joined them, giggling and spinning around Kaladin’s head. “Feeling proud of yourself?”
“Teft,” Kaladin said. “He’s a leader.”
“Of course he is. You gave him a rank, didn’t you?”
“No,” Kaladin said. “I didn’t give it to him. He claimed it. Come on. Let’s walk.”
She nodded, alighting in the air and settling down, her legs crossed at the knees as if she were primly seating herself in an invisible chair. She continued to hover there, moving exactly in step with him.
“Giving up all pretense of obeying natural laws again, I see,” he said.
“Natural laws?” Syl said, finding the concept amusing. “Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn’t have them!”
“If I toss something upward, it comes back down.”
“Except when it doesn’t.”
“It’s a law.”
“No,” Syl said, looking upward. “It’s more like… more like an agreement among friends.”
He looked at her, raising an eyebrow.
“We have to be consistent,” she said, leaning in conspiratorially. “Or we’ll break your brains.”
He snorted, walking around a clump of bones and sticks pierced by a spear. Cankered with rust, it looked like a monument.
“Oh, come on,” Syl said, tossing her hair. “That was worth at least a chuckle.”
Kaladin kept walking.
“A snort is not a chuckle,” Syl said. “I know this because I am intelligent and articulate. You should compliment me now.”
“Dalinar Kholin wants to refound the Knights Radiant.”
“Yes,” Syl said loftily, hanging in the corner of his vision. “A brilliant idea. I wish I’d thought of it.” She grinned triumphantly, then scowled.
“What?” he said, turning back to her.
“Has it ever struck you as unfair,” she said, “that spren cannot attract spren? I should really have had some gloryspren of my own there.”
“I have to protect Dalinar,” Kaladin said, ignoring her complaint. “Not just him, but his family, maybe the king himself. Even though I failed to keep someone from sneaking into Dalinar’s rooms.” He still couldn’t figure out how someone had managed to get in. Unless it hadn’t been a person. “Could a spren have made those glyphs on the wall?” Syl had carried a leaf once. She had some physical form, just not much.
“I don’t know,” she said, glancing to the side. “I’ve seen…”
“Spren like red lightning,” Syl said softly. “Dangerous spren. Spren I haven’t seen before. I catch them in the distance, on occasion. Stormspren? Something dangerous is coming. About that, the glyphs are right.”
He chewed on that for a while, then finally stopped and looked at her. “Syl, are there others like me?”
Her face grew solemn. “Oh.”
“Oh, that question.”
“You’ve been expecting it, then?”
“Yeah. Sort of.”
“So you’ve had plenty of time to think about a good answer,” Kaladin said, folding his arms and leaning back against a somewhat dry portion of the wall. “That makes me wonder if you’ve come up with a solid explanation or a solid lie.”
“Lie?” Syl said, aghast. “Kaladin! What do you think I am? A Cryptic?”
“And what is a Cryptic?”
Syl, still perched as if on a seat, sat up straight and cocked her head. “I actually… I actually have no idea. Huh.”
“I’m serious, Kaladin! I don’t know. I don’t remember.” She grabbed her hair, one clump of white translucence in each hand, and pulled sideways.
He frowned, then pointed. “That…”
“I saw a woman do it in the market,” Syl said, yanking her hair to the sides again. “It means I’m frustrated. I think it’s supposed to hurt. So… ow? Anyway, it’s not that I don’t want to tell you what I know. I do! I just… I don’t know what I know.”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“Well, imagine how frustrating it feels!”
Kaladin sighed, then continued along the chasm, passing pools of stagnant water clotted with debris. A scattering of enterprising rockbuds grew stunted along one chasm wall. They must not get much light down here.
He breathed in deeply the scents of overloaded life. Moss and mold. Most of the bodies here were mere bone, though he did steer clear of one patch of ground crawling with the red dots of rotspren. Just beside it, a group of frillblooms wafted their delicate fanlike fronds in the air, and those danced with green specks of lifespren. Life and death shook hands here in the chasms.
He explored several of the chasm’s branching paths. It felt odd to not know this area; he’d learned the chasms closest to Sadeas’s camp better than the camp itself. As he walked, the chasm grew deeper and the area opened up. He made a few marks on the wall.
Along one fork he found a round open area with little debris. He noted it, then walked back, marking the wall again before taking another branch. Eventually, they entered another place where the chasm opened up, widening into a roomy space.
“Coming here was dangerous,” Syl said.
“Into the chasms?” Kaladin asked. “There aren’t going to be any chasmfiends this close to the warcamps.”
“No. I meant for me, coming into this realm before I found you. It was dangerous.”
“Where were you before?”
“Another place. With lots of spren. I can’t remember well… it had lights in the air. Living lights.”
“Like lifespren.”
“Yes. And no. Coming here risked death. Without you, without a mind born of this realm, I couldn’t think. Alone, I was just another windspren.”
“But you’re not windspren,” Kaladin said, kneeling beside a large pool of water. “You’re honorspren.”
“Yes,” Syl said.
Kaladin closed his hand around his sphere, bringing near-darkness to the cavernous space. It was day above, but that crack of sky was distant, unreachable.
Mounds of flood-borne refuse fell into shadows that seemed almost to give them flesh again. Heaps of bones took on the semblance of limp arms, of corpses piled high. In a moment, Kaladin remembered it. Charging with a yell toward lines of Parshendi archers. His friends dying on barren plateaus, thrashing in their own blood.
The thunder of hooves on stone. The incongruous chanting of alien tongues. The cries of men both lighteyed and dark. A world that cared nothing for bridgemen. They were refuse. Sacrifices to be cast into the chasms and carried away by the cleansing floods.
This was their true home, these rents in the earth, these places lower than any other. As his eyes adjusted to the dimness, the memories of death receded, though he would never be free of them. He would forever bear those scars upon his memory like the many upon his flesh. Like the ones on his forehead.
The pool in front of him glowed a deep violet. He’d noticed it earlier, but in the light of his sphere it had been harder to see. Now, in the dimness, the pool could reveal its eerie radiance.
Syl landed on the side of the pool, looking like a woman standing on an ocean’s shore. Kaladin frowned, leaning down to inspect her more closely. She seemed… different. Had her face changed shape?
“There are others like you,” Syl whispered. “I do not know them, but I know that other spren are trying, in their own way, to reclaim what was lost.”
She looked to him, and her face now had its familiar form. The fleeting change had been so subtle, Kaladin wasn’t sure if he’d imagined it.
“I am the only honorspren who has come,” Syl said. “I…” She seemed to be stretching to remember. “I was forbidden. I came anyway. To find you.”
“You knew me?”
“No. But I knew I’d find you.” She smiled. “I spent the time with my cousins, searching.”
“The windspren.”
“Without the bond, I am basically one of them,” she said. “Though they don’t have the capacity to do what we do. And what we do is important. So important that I left everything, defying the Stormfather, to come. You saw him. In the storm.”
The hair stood up on Kaladin’s arms. He had indeed seen a being in the storm. A face as vast as the sky itself. Whatever the thing was—spren, Herald, or god—it had not tempered its storms for Kaladin during that day he’d spent strung up.
“We are needed, Kaladin,” Syl said softly. She waved for him, and he lowered his hand to the shore of the tiny violet ocean glowing softly in the chasm. She stepped onto his hand, and he stood up, lifting her.
She walked up his fingers and he could actually feel a little weight, which was unusual. He turned his hand as she stepped up until she was perched on one finger, her hands clasped behind her back, meeting his eyes as he held that finger up before his face.
“You,” Syl said. “You’re going to need to become what Dalinar Kholin is looking for. Don’t let him search in vain.”
“They’ll take it from me, Syl,” Kaladin whispered. “They’ll find a way to take you from me.”
“That’s foolishness. You know that it is.”
“I know it is, but I feel it isn’t. They broke me, Syl. I’m not what you think I am. I’m no Radiant.”
“That’s not what I saw,” Syl said. “On the battlefield after Sadeas’s betrayal, when men were trapped, abandoned. That day I saw a hero.”
He looked into her eyes. She had pupils, though they were created only from the differing shades of white and blue, like the rest of her. She glowed more softly than the weakest of spheres, but it was enough to light his finger. She smiled, seeming utterly confident in him.
At least one of them was.
“I’ll try,” Kaladin whispered. A promise.
“Kaladin?” The voice was Rock’s, with his distinctive Horneater accent. He pronounced the name “kal-ah-deen,” instead of the normal “kal-a-din.”
Syl zipped off Kaladin’s finger, becoming a ribbon of light and flitting over to Rock. He showed respect to her in his Horneater way, touching his shoulders in turn with one hand, and then raising the hand to his forehead. She giggled; her profound solemnity had become girlish joy in moments. Syl might only be a cousin to windspren, but she obviously shared their impish nature.
“Hey,” Kaladin said, nodding to Rock, and fishing in the pool. He came out with an amethyst broam and held it up. Somewhere up there on the Plains, a lighteyes had died with this in his pocket. “Riches, if we still were bridgemen.”
“We are still bridgemen,” Rock said, coming over. He plucked the sphere from Kaladin’s fingers. “And this is still riches. Ha! Spices they have for us to requisition are tuma’alki! I have promised I will not fix dung for the men, but it is hard, with soldiers being accustomed to food that is not much better.” He held up the sphere. “I will use him to buy better, eh?”
“Sure,” Kaladin said. Syl landed on Rock’s shoulder and became a young woman, then sat down.
Rock eyed her and tried to bow to his own shoulder.
“Stop tormenting him, Syl,” Kaladin said.
“It’s so fun!”
“You are to be praised for your aid of us, mafah’liki,” Rock said to her. “I will endure whatever you wish of me. And now that I am free, I can create a shrine fitting to you.”
“A shrine?” Syl said, eyes widening. “Ooooh.”
“Syl!” Kaladin said. “Stop it. Rock, I saw a good place for the men to practice. It’s back a couple of branches. I marked it on the walls.”
“Yes, we saw this thing,” Rock said. “Teft has led the men there. It is strange. This place is frightening; it is a place that nobody comes, and yet the new recruits…”
“They’re opening up,” Kaladin guessed.
“Yes. How did you know this thing would happen?”
“They were there,” Kaladin said, “in Sadeas’s warcamp, when we were assigned to exclusive duty in the chasms. They saw what we did, and have heard stories of our training here. By bringing them down here, we’re inviting them in, like an initiation.”
Teft had been having problems getting the former bridgemen to show interest in his training. The old soldier was always sputtering at them in annoyance. They’d insisted on remaining with Kaladin rather than going free, so why wouldn’t they learn?
They had needed to be invited. Not just with words.
“Yes, well,” Rock said. “Sigzil sent me. He wishes to know if you are ready to practice your abilities.”
Kaladin took a deep breath, glancing at Syl, then nodded. “Yes. Bring him. We can do it here.”
“Ha! Finally. I will fetch him.”
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#FirstTeam #PremierLeague #MatchReaction #ManCity #JoseMourinho
Jose's verdict on City
Sun 22 November 2020, 09:00| Tottenham Hotspur
Jose Mourinho was bursting with pride after a fantastic performance and 2-0 win against City on Saturday.
Heung-Min Son gave us the perfect start with the opening goal on five minutes, created impressively by Tanguy Ndombele, and Gio Lo Celso raced onto Harry Kane’s pass to secure victory on 65 minutes, just 35 seconds after coming off the bench.
We defended magnificently as a team from front to back, underlined by the fact that although City had 22 efforts on goal, only five were on target as our players made block after block, and Hugo Lloris was only seriously tested in injury time, when he kept out Ruben Dias’ point-blank header.
Match report and debrief
“Big team, big hearts, big solidarity, a proper team, a team that I believe makes Tottenham fans proud,” said Jose. “Players going to the limits of their energy, sacrifice for the team plan, coping well with let’s say a new pressure of ‘if you win the match, you go top of the league for 24 hours’.
“There is a big spirit. I know the group is very strong and very united. I’m really, really proud. I’m very proud. They deserve big applause and lots of respect.”
I know the group is very strong and very united. I’m really, really proud. They deserve big applause and lots of respect
While we were on point defensively - three clean sheets in our last four in the Premier League - we were also clinical. “That’s really important,” added Jose. “We don’t have many chances, we had five, we scored two or three - we scored two, another one was offside.
“That’s the way it has to be. You cannot expect to have 10 chances because they are very good with the ball, they keep the ball, they move the ball, they hide the ball from you, that’s the way they play, and if you try to play the way they do, they are better than you. So, to beat them, you have to play in a different way.
“I’m so pleased. After the game, everybody celebrated together and I’m really, really happy with what we’re building. I’m really proud of the guys.”
Jose on Spurs TV
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About Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras Day Dates
The New Orleans Mardi Gras
For its unmatched exuberance, lively spirits, and city-wide participation, the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans can be regarded as the most extravagant of all American festivals. Mardi Gras is possessed by New Orleans through a bond of uniqueness, love, and tradition.
It first came to New Orleans through French Culture in the year 1699 when the French explorers celebrated the holiday on the Mississippi River. That was pretty long ago. In 1827 some young men who came back from completing their education in Paris introduced recent French ingredients to the event. Yet that was not all. Since then Mardi Gras has many ups and downs with the popularity waxing and waning accordingly.
At first the masked revelers merely marched through the city on the day. By 1838 pageants of sorts were held. Then the festivities deteriorated. The local newspaper reports available then revealed that the Carnival had lacked the taste and spirit.
The turning point came in the year 1857 when the first night parade was performed on Mardi Gras by an organization called the Mystick Krewe of Comus. It changed the picture thoroughly and gave it a permanence that has lasted to this day. Then in 1872 the Krewes of Rex was formed to provide an entertainment and spectacle for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia who was passing through the city. This is said to have introduced various marchers and floats in the parade. Following Rex, other organizations like Momus, and Proteus were formed, and today there are more than 60 Mardi Gras organizations in New Orleans.
The present festivities:
The Mardi Gras season of galas begins about two weeks before Fat Tuesday. During those two weeks, parades can be viewed nightly and on weekends. Almost all businesses are closed for Lundi Gras (Fat Monday) and for Mardi Gras itself. Visitors from all over the world throng the city of New Orleans to enjoy this extravagant holiday.
The festivities which open officially on Epiphany with the Twelfth Night (Jan 6) Reveler's Ball, come to a close with the final ball on Mardi Gras night. Both the Rex Association and the Comus Krewe have their balls late night. The dancing in the royal courtroom set up starts with the song that has become the trademark of the Mardi Gras, "If Ever I Cease to Love."
At midnight, Rex and his queen appear at the Comus Ball and the royalty toast each other. There is dancing until dawn; but elsewhere in the the city the crowds melt away earlier and the streets wear deserted look.
Parades:
However, the parade is the main attraction of the New Orleans Mardi Gras and precedes the balls. The entire Bourbon Street is dedicated to the parades and has a world wide fame. Each of the organizations picks a king and a queen for its parade. These parades comprise floats, dancers and bands. Most parades have at least 15 floats. The elaborate procession of floats, decorated to depict different themes, are pulled by tractors.
The Rex parade is the highlight of the day. Saluting his queen who sits in the reviewing stand in front of the Boston Club, Rex is toasted by the mayor. Manned by his glittering, masked knights the Rex parade then slowly winds its way through the narrow streets of the Vieusx Carré. The press of people is tremendous. There are simply too many to be contained along the sidewalks. And they come spilled over the streets making the streets crowded. But no problem no one around is busy as all businesses remain closed on the day. And the festive revelry floods the whole city.
As the parade with its costumed figures on the floats crawls its way through the crowded streets, viewers along side shout with the traditional Mardi Gras cry: "Throw me something mistuh!" Strings of beads, doubloons, cups and trinkets are thrown into the air. Beads are of plastic and come in all different colors, shapes and sizes. They resemble jewels that royalty would wear. Doubloons are metal coins that are about the size of a silver dollar. They come in different colors and are stamped with the krewes' emblem and their theme for the year. Similar to doubloons, cups bear the krewes emblem and theme for the year. Trinkets might be anything from a candy, to stuffed toys, and knickknacks of every description.
They are almost worthless, but a stranger would never know it judging by the enthusiasm with which they are received and fought for.The floats, the dancers and the marching units with the innumerable bands apart, the city on Mardi Gras is thronged with ordinary citizens who for the day have become quite extraordinary. With costumes of all colors and varieties the children and the grown ups alike become circus clowns or fabulous beasts or live comic-strip characters. Some groups may also cavort according to their whim as harem beauties or Indians or famous Americans.
In the opinion of many, the real Mardi Gras resides as much in the efforts of such people as in the impressive parades.
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Home » duke nukem , duke nukem forever , trailers , video games » Release trailer for DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Yes, really.
Release trailer for DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Yes, really.
By Chris Knight January 26, 2011 1 comment
On April 28th, 1997, video game studio 3D Realms announced that Duke Nukem Forever, the follow-up to its 1996 hit Duke Nukem 3-D, was in development.
Fourteen years, hundreds of thousands of wasted man-hours, numerous rendering engines long gone obsolete, two or more full generations of console technology and a bankruptcy later, Gearbox Software - which picked up the pieces last year to try to make some sense of this mess - will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever on May 6th.
Yes, as in: this year. 2011.
Look! Release trailer!
Here's the official synopsis:
Put on your shades and prepare to step into the boots of Duke Nukem,whose legend has reached epic proportions in the years since his last adventure. The alien hordes are invading and only Duke can save the world. Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses can't stop our hero from accomplishing his one and only goal: to save the world, save the babes and to be a bad-ass while doing it. The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, non-stop action, and unprecedented levels of interactivity. This game puts the pedal to the metal and tongue firmly in cheek. Shoot hoops, lift weights, read adult magazines, draw crude messages on whiteboards or ogle the many hot women that occupy Duke's life - that is if you can pull yourself away long enough from destroying alien invaders. Duke Nukem was andwill forever be a gaming icon, and this is his legend.
I wonder if THIS guy is going to get his pre-order honored by GameStop.
I still can't believe this is seriously happening. All the jokes about "Duke Nukem Whenever", "Duke Nukem If Ever", "Duke Nukem Not Ever" are about to come to an end. When this game was first announced the Star Wars Special Editions were still in theaters. Bill Clinton had not yet done "that thing" with a cigar and Monica Lewinsky. Gas was ridiculously cheap. You could go to the airport without getting molested by government goons. "High-speed Internet" meant 57k baud...
I probably won't be buying it, but I'm planning on being at GameStop for the midnight release, just to see it with my own two eyes :-P
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Tornadoes, virus fears, machines disrupt some voting
by: CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press
Posted: Mar 2, 2020 / 11:18 PM CST / Updated: Mar 4, 2020 / 12:18 AM CST
FILE—In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a lone voter fills out a ballot in the lobby of the Denver Elections Division in downtown Denver. Colorado voters head to the polls to cast their ballots in the state’s primary election Tuesday, March 3. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Deadly tornadoes knocked out polling places in Tennessee, fears over the coronavirus left some precincts short of election workers and long lines frustrated voters in California and Texas as Super Tuesday sent voters surging to the polls in 14 states.
Scattered reports of polling places opening late, machines malfunctioning or voter rolls being down temporarily disrupted voting in some of the states voting Tuesday, but there were no widespread reports of voters being unable to cast a ballot or security breaches.
Just hours before polls were set to open in Tennessee, tornadoestore through parts of the state, killing at least 24. With more than a dozen polling sites in Nashville’s Davidson County damaged, voters were sent to other locations, where some of them encountered long lines.
The Tennessee Democratic Party and the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren successfully sued Davidson County election officials and the secretary of state’s office to extend voting for three hours beyond the scheduled 7 p.m. closing time.
Aside from the tornado-ravaged counties in the South, the two biggest Super Tuesday prizes of California and Texas appeared to have most of the voting-related problems.
Voter file databases were down or excruciatingly slow in some counties in California and Texas. In Los Angeles County, electronic pollbooks that are connected to the state’s voter database were operating slowly because of the high number of voters, County Registrar-Recorder spokesman Mike Sanchez said. The county brought in technicians and added devices in some polling places to move lines along.
Even so, delays were two hours or longer in some locations. Beverly Hills City Councilman Julian Gold said waiting times there were 2 1/2 to 3 hours. He said he was told the delays were related to voter check-in.
“There’s a lot of frustration (and) people walk away,” he said. “I don’t know if they’ll come back. I hope they do.”
At a vote center in Silver Lake, near downtown Los Angeles, poll workers said computer network issues slowed the voter check-in process and made some machines unusable. About one-third of the approximately 40 machines were being used, and some had “out of order” signs taped to them. The resulting line meant it took about an hour for voters to cast their ballot.
In Texas, elections officials in the Houston area were sending additional voting machines to polling places after people reported hourslong wait times. A voting-rights group said the problem seemed most acute in heavily black and Latino neighborhoods.
Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, described problems with pollbooks around the country as “intermittent I.T. issues” that had since been resolved.
“We’re not aware of any persistent, long-term issues associated with the election infrastructure of the United States right now,” he said.
In Minnesota, a poll-finding tool on the secretary of state’s website was briefly inaccessible on Tuesday. Republicans cried foul when visitors to the site were redirected to a left-leaning website that also supplied polling place information. Secretary of State Steve Simon said a staff member had linked to the partisan site in what he called “a serious lapse of judgment.”
U.S. intelligence chiefs have warned that foreign interference remains a threat for the 2020 election, but the national agency that oversees election security said Tuesday it had not detected any notable uptick in either misinformation by foreign nations or targeted attacks on voting equipment.
That doesn’t mean Super Tuesday was free of mischief. The Texas Secretary of State’s Office had reports that voters were receiving robocalls stating — incorrectly — that Republicans would vote on Tuesday while Democrats and independents would vote on Wednesday. Spokesman Stephen Chang said the office has the number from which the calls were made and has reported them to federal authorities. He said it was unclear who was responsible for the calls, which were made across the state.
Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Equal Protection Under Law, said her organization filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission about the robocalls. An official with the federal cybersecurity agency said they were aware of the Texas robocalls and were investigating.
Fears of the coronavirus temporarily disrupted voting as the day began. In Travis County, Texas, home to Austin, many election workers did not show up, with some citing fears of contracting the virus, according to the county clerk’s office. The election office said it implemented emergency procedures, with elections staff and other employees filling in as poll workers.
Another county, in California, addressed concerns over the coronavirus by sending bottles of hand sanitizer to polling places and asking poll workers to post fliers from the public health department on how to avoid spreading the virus.
Jesse Salinas, the chief elections official in Yolo County, just west of Sacramento, said about 10% of poll workers backed out at the last minute, and he pointed to concerns about getting the virus. He said that’s about double what is normal for an election, and sent his team scrambling for replacements.
“We are hoping people remain calm and still participate in the election process,” Salinas said.
Cassidy reported from Atlanta; Sainz reported from Memphis.
Associated Press writers Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas, Jake Bleiberg in Dallas, Kate Brumback in Atlanta, Stefanie Dazio and Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles, Ben Fox and Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., Doug Glass in Minneapolis, Juan Lozano in Houston, Jonathan Mattise in Nashville and Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama, and contributed to this report.
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by ASHRAF KHALIL , Associated Press / Jan 15, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Between the still-raging pandemic and suddenly very real threat of violence, the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris next Wednesday promises to be one of the most unusual in American history.
Here's what we know:
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to expand coronavirus vaccinations, help individuals and jump-start the economy. The plan, which would require congressional approval, is packed with proposals on health care, education, labor and cybersecurity. On Friday, he outlined a five-step approach to getting the vaccination to the American people, and to ensure that it is distributed equitably. “Equity is central to our COVID response,” he said.
Here's a look at what's in Biden's plan:
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Teachers’ unions balk at reopening schools, hurting country
By bipartisan consensus, education is a high, or the highest, priority, so why aren't teachers considered essential workers?
By Liz Peek, The Hill, July 16, 2020 - Posted on Jul. 17, 2020
If grocery store clerks, UPS workers, bus drivers, police officers, sanitation engineers, oilfield hands and people who work in meat processing plants are essential workers, why aren’t teachers?
As the pandemic invaded one community after another, millions of brave souls went to work every day, often putting their lives at risk, to keep Americans fed, warm and safe. Thousands of doctors, emergency medical teams, nurses and firemen knowingly exposed themselves to sick patients; many became ill themselves. The heroism of these people, confronting a little-understood disease, cannot be overstated.
Now our nation urgently needs our children to go back to school, for the good of our youngsters and working families. But public-school teachers are balking. Instead of working with officials to facilitate reentry, they are requiring exorbitant safety measures that make returning to the classroom all but impossible.
Some are making demands that have nothing to do with health precautions, but rather target Democratic political priorities, like defunding the police.
For instance, United Teachers Los Angeles released a paper decrying “our profoundly racist, intensely unequal society” and stating that “Police violence is a leading cause of death and trauma for Black people… We must shift the astronomical amount of money devoted to policing to education and other essential needs…”
For good measure, the Bernie Sanders-style polemic also calls for “Medicare for All” and insists on a moratorium on charter schools.
Ironically, the union’s paper admits that “Vulnerable students… were disproportionately negatively impacted by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s shift to crisis distance learning.” And yet, it adamantly opposes opening up our schools.
Never mind that, according to the Wall Street Journal, some 22 European countries have reopened their schools, taking increased precautions for older students, mostly without incident.
As the Washington Post reported, “Public health officials and researchers [in Europe and Asia] say they have not detected much coronavirus transmission among students or significant spikes in community spread as a result of schools being in session — at least for students under 12.”
Given the experience elsewhere, objections from our teachers’ unions look politically-driven, yet another great speed bump thrown up by Democrats eager to block President Trump’s reelection. If they keep schools closed, millions cannot go back to work, the economy remains hamstrung and voters will blame the president. Very neat.
What an appalling insight into the priorities of the biggest unions in the country — unions that give tens of millions of dollars each cycle to Democratic candidates who repay them with lavish contracts and absolution from any accountability.
For sure, teachers need to be protected as much as possible; older teachers and those who have health problems must be excused. Others, though, need to get back on the job. Students may suffer irreparable harm from prolonged absence from the classroom, and, yes, the economy will suffer, too. Not because Big Business plutocrats might not get their million-dollar bonuses at year end; rather, because 18 million Americans don’t have jobs and are hurting. In addition, 3.3 million small businesses, 22 percent of the total, shut their doors between February and April — the worst loss of firms in so short a time ever recorded.
As the pandemic has caused gruesome unemployment and the wholesale shuttering of small businesses, minorities and women have been hardest hit.
Many of the industries that have been crushed during the lockdown – restaurants and hotels, for instance – have laid off minimum wage earners who have little to fall back on.
Now that some of those businesses have been allowed to start back up, employers report that one of the biggest impediments to reopening is that potential workers have no childcare. Reopening our schools would change that.
Meanwhile, keeping kids out of school is not healthy. Before this issue became politicized – that is, before President Trump pushed for schools to open – pediatricians and educators were more vocal about the damage being done, and especially to kids from low-income families without access to internet or computers.
Dr. Dimitri Christakis, editor-in-chief of the journal JAMA Pediatrics, cautioned in a May article that experts thought children might lose nine to 12 months of learning if schools reopened in the fall. If later, even more.
Studies published in the same journal report elevated depression and anxiety among children under lockdown in China, and impairment of social and emotional development in kids not in the classroom.
There is also evidence that child abuse is on the rise. With teachers not reporting on the welfare of children, such abuse is leading to higher numbers of hospitalizations and even deaths. As NPR reported, “a sex-abuse hotline operated by the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network reported that half its calls in March came from minors, for the first time in its history.”
These are serious issues that policymakers must consider as they push back against the intransigence of teachers’ unions who prioritize their own members’ health over the welfare of our children; and over the welfare of the millions of Americans who need to get back to work.
Some would argue that our teachers’ unions do not deserve to wield such power.
Events of the past month have highlighted the challenges of African Americans. Almost never in this conversation do any of the Democratic activists or politicians so publicly concerned about the welfare of African Americans talk about our inner-city schools, which are routinely failing minority children. It is an outrage.
In Baltimore, for instance, a city that spends over $16,000 per student each year, among the highest in the country, a group called Project Baltimore discovered that in one-third of the city’s high schools in 2016, there were zero students proficient in math. Imagine: Zero.
California governor says Orange County can’t reopen schools days…
Biden rolls out school reopening plan amid coronavirus pandemic
Every American deserves a shot at success, of becoming self-sufficient, happy and productive adults. Every child deserves a solid foundational education. And all Americans deserve the opportunity to work.
The teachers’ unions’ resistance to reopening our schools is pushing both goals farther away than ever.
Liz Peek, The Hill, July 16, 2020 - Posted
Liz Peek is a former partner of Wertheim & Company, a major bracket Wall Street firm . Follow her on Twitter @lizpeek.
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Fresh Mangoes Three Times a Year? Meet The Farmer Who Created The Unique ‘Sadabahar’
Suman has sold over 800 plants so far and has been receiving calls for Sadabahar saplings from all over the world.
Post author:Guest Contributor
Post category:Agriculture / Rajasthan
Intimately associated with the history of agriculture and civilisation in India, we have had a love affair with mangoes since long, but it was Hsüan-Tsang, the seventh-century Chinese traveller who brought our fascination for Mangifera Indica to the world’s notice.
A country which has 1,500 varieties of mangoes, as a nation, we get excited whenever a new aam or amba variety makes its appearance. We each have a different way of eating, peeling and slicing or making aam ras with milk and jaggery—the luscious and fragrant fruit is summer’s greatest gift.
The same is happening with ‘Sadabhar’, a mango which flowers thrice a year.
Developed by Shree Kishan Suman, a Kota-based horticulturist and farmer, Sadabahar is a recent entrant on the mango-sphere and has quite a few similarities with Alphonso. Mango growers the world over are making a beeline for this new variety of the ‘king of fruits’ to have in their orchards.
Many in the know are likely to confuse Sadabahar with ‘Baramasi’ or ‘Dofasla’, which flowers and fruits twice or thrice a year but the former stands out due to its table quality, its lack of fibre, shape and size—all akin to Alphonso.
Popular with the masses due to its adaptability, nutritive value, rich variety, delicious taste and excellent flavour, Indian mangoes rank first among the world’s mango producing countries, accounting for about 50% of the world’s mango production.
Also Read: 51 Types of Mango on One Tree! An Engineer-Turned-Farmer’s Unique Plan to Save Endangered Varieties
The word ‘mango’ comes from the Portuguese ‘manga’, which is probably derived from the Malayalam manga. It is believed that the Portuguese introduced vegetative propagation methods in India during the 15th century when they established trading outposts along the western coast of India. These were then used to clone superior mono-embryonic trees, like the Alphonso, named after the Portuguese general Afonso de Albuquerque.
The most important mango cultivars of India like Alphonso, Dashehari, Langra etc., are selections that were made at the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar (1542–1605 AD) and therefore, have been propagated vegetatively for several hundred years.
Fifty-two-year-old Suman of village Girdharpura, 15 kms from Kota, belongs to a family of farmers who used to grow rice and wheat but gave them up due to the fluctuating market rates.
In 1995, they started cultivating rose, mogra and mayurpankhi (thuja) and continued doing so for the next three years. During this period, he developed rose plants which yielded seven colours of rose in a single plant and made good returns.
“I thought if I could work with roses, why not with mangoes. I acquired mango stones of different varieties and nurtured them. When the saplings became big enough, I grafted them on rootstock,” recalls Suman, sitting among saplings of different sizes and ages, bearing flowers and fruits.
In 2000, he identified a mango tree in his orchard, which had bloomed in the three seasons viz. January-February, June-July and September-October. He prepared five grafted mango trees, using them as a scion. This tree had a good growth habit and had dark green leaves. Growing them for years, he found the mango trees immune to major diseases and common disorders.
Soon the word spread and one Sundaram Verma, a volunteer with Honey Bee Network, informed the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), the institutional space for grassroots technological innovators and outstanding traditional knowledge, about Suman’s innovation. “NIF asked me not to sell or gift Sadabahar saplings, and for 11 long years I followed their advice while it was grown by them at different places in the country to authenticate the veracity of my claims,” says Suman, who took about fifteen years to develop his variety.
But for Suman’s nursery-cum-orchard, Sadabhar yielded fruits in Kamal Hissaria’s two-acre farm near Aalniya Mata Mandir on Kota Jhalawar Road, 30 kms from Kota railway station.
“I gifted him 20 plants in 2012 and the trees have been yielding fruits. When the fruit ripens, the skin acquires orange colour, while the insides have a saffron hue,” says Suman.
Hissaria who runs a tea blending unit in Kota is among the few who can enjoy the delicious and sweet mangoes three times in a year, unlike others who have to wait for the summers to have their ‘king of fruits’.
In March 2017, Suman was conferred with the Farm Innovation Award during the 9th Biennial Grassroots Innovation and Outstanding Traditional Knowledge held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
According to Hardev Choudhary, Innovation Officer, NIF, Sadabahar blooms throughout the year. “The fruits are sweeter in taste audit and developed as a dwarf variety which is suitable for kitchen gardening and can be grown in pots for some years. It has great potential, unlike the existing varieties, and due to its off-season availability, it is likely to benefit the growers immensely,” he says.
Perhaps the nation’s or in fact, the world’s only hybrid mango that flowers thrice a year, Sadabahar has been registered under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act as a farmers’ variety.
Will it be able to dethrone favourites like Alphonso, Langra or Dashehari? It’s too early to tell. Meanwhile, ICAR-Central Institute of Subtropical Horticulture (CISH), Lucknow, which has the world’s largest germplasm of mangoes in its field gene bank, has acquired the saplings of Sadabahar.
Work at CISH is on to determine factors such as preferred agri-climatic zone and soil quality for Sadabahar to prosper. Dr K K Srivastava, Principal Scientist, CISH, says, “We now have five plants of Sadabahar mangoes and are studying its performance. It will take us close to three to four years to arrive at any conclusion.”
But mango lovers are unwilling to wait. And ever since Suman’s mangoes were planted at Rashtrapati Bhavan, his phone has been continuously ringing.
So far, Suman has sold over 800 plants, available for Rs 1,000 each, to nurseries and individuals in Delhi, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana. “I have even received inquiries for saplings from individuals in Nigeria, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, UK, and the USA, but don’t know how to go about it,” shares Suman.
Mangoes take around five summers to yield fruits. Growers need to wait that long but they are not complaining, for Sadabahar is unlike other mango varieties. Isn’t that worth the wait!
You can contact Suman at 9829142509.
(Written by Hiren Bose & edited by Shruti Singhal)
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Plague doctors march through the mist of history in St. John’s
Andrew Waterman
Updated: Oct 19, 2020 at 10:10 a.m.
Originally designed in the early 1600s, these plague doctor outfits were an early form of personal protective equipment. — Andrew Waterman/The Telegram
Their costumes were replicas of the personal protective equipment worn during a much earlier pandemic
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. —
A slight drizzle hung in the air just before 4 p.m. on Saturday and the dampness and fog combined to make those approaching seem to appear from a mist.
The steps outside the Anglican Cathedral were empty until, one by one, individuals wearing masks with long noses, carrying canes and lanterns and wearing long black coats and top hats, approached, walking from the top and bottom of Church Street.
It was an unpublicized ‘happening’ called “March of the Plague Doctors,” organized by cultural historian and author Ainsley Hawthorn.
Ainsley Hawthorn organized the "March of the Plague Doctors" in downtown St. John's. — Andrew Waterman/The Telegram
“In August, I was researching the origins of the plague doctor costume which was invented in the 1600s as an early form of personal protective equipment,” Hawthorn said. “But it also became a popular costume for the Venetian Carnival.”
The march was a fun and magical way to mark a year that’s been very stressful for many people, she said.
“I’m hoping that people will be surprised, delighted, a little spooked — it is the spooky season — so that would be fine as well,” she said. “But I hope we give people a memorable experience if they see us walking down the street.”
A slight drizzle mixed with the fog on Saturday, as people dressed as plague doctors emerged from the mist in all directions and walked toward the Anglican Cathedral on Church Street in downtown St. John's. Pictured here is Zaren Healey White. — Andrew Waterman/The Telegram
Approximately 15 people answered Hawthorn’s call, when she put it out on social media that she was looking to organize the event.
David Brake was there in full costume and said there is a weird irony in what they were doing.
“Our plague doctors have kept it all at bay, right?” he said. “So, it’s kind of a weird celebration, if you look at it that way.”
If you can’t beat it, laugh at it, Brake says.
“I hope people will take it in the spirit it is intended,” he said. “I heard about it just randomly out of the blue and thought, why not? … If it helps people to think about the history and the present of how we dealt with plagues. Thank god we’re not dealing with plagues in the same way now as we were then.”
David Brake in his plague doctor costume. Brake joined the march simply because it sounded like fun, but said it was also like a weird celebration of how modern plague doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador have managed to keep the current pandemic at bay. — Andrew Waterman/The Telegram
Monica Squires was participating as well and said it simply sounded like fun.
“A friend was organizing a little parade of plague doctors and I thought it would be an interesting thing to do,” Squires said.
And while Squires expected strange looks and possibly laughs, when she stepped out of her house, the crows got excited, she said.
“The crows in my neighbourhood, they started talking to me,” Squires said. “I didn’t know what to say.”
Here’s an Authentic 16th Century Plague Doctor Mask Preserved and on Display at the German Museum of Medical History https://t.co/rWgzbLeN2s #www.splendidum.com #vintage pic.twitter.com/4fTnFnc6qr
— Stationery (@stationerybest) February 9, 2020
Hawthorn said the original outfits were made entirely of leather with a wax coating and were meant to repel bodily fluids.
“The original mask would have been leather hoods, they look similar to British gas hoods in (the First World War), they had lenses over the eyes and a cone-shaped piece over the mouth that acted like a respirator,” Hawthorn said. “But over time, once it started being used as a costume, they exaggerated the beak-like look of the mask. So, what you’ll see us wearing today is kind of a fanciful reinterpretation of what they would look like.”
#PlagueMask #PlagueDoctor #COVID19 #Pandemic #PandemicFun @CityofStJohns pic.twitter.com/7i7JCOVkOY
— Lynn Hammond (@LynnHammondNL) October 17, 2020
While germ theory did not yet exist in the early 1600s, people knew intuitively that getting closer to a contagious person made it more likely a person would get sick, Hawthorn said.
Even 500 years ago, despite how practical they were in helping stop the spread of contagious disease, the outfit must have been eerie, Hawthorn said.
“If someone has to cover their whole body when they interact with you, no matter how good their intention is, it is still going to scare and intimidate you, there’s no doubt,” she said.
Once the march was over, Hawthorn said the response was exactly what she hoped for.
“We all had a blast and the reaction from people on the street was really entertaining,” she said. “We had cars honking at us, we had people taking photos (and) we heard someone as we were walking by say, ‘I don’t know what the hell this is, but I love it.’”
It was a great review, she said.
“We surprised and delighted people and had a great time while doing it.”
Twitter: @AndrewLWaterman
This group of people in plague doctor costumes marched through downtown St. John's on Saturday to the surprise and delight of passersby. — Andrew Waterman/The Telegram
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When Will Body Cam Season 2 Come Back on ID?
Ayesha Gani
‘Body Cam’ is a docu-series on Investigation Discovery directed by Chris Bairstow, Rebecca Kenna, Andrew Parkin, and Stephen Lennhoff. Tom Keeling has created the series. He is also a producer and composer by profession, best known for his works in ‘The Head Hunter’ (2015) and ‘Dead or Alive’ (2013).
The series showcases the actual footage of law enforcement officers’ daily activities throughout the country. It enlightens the normal citizen with the difficulties officers go through regularly to ensure their safety. The first season of the series opened to rave reviews, following which it was renewed for a second edition. However, season 2, after airing 10 episodes, went on a hiatus. Here’s when ‘Body Cam’ season 2 episode 11 releases on ID.
Body Cam Season 2 Episode 11 Release Date:
‘Body Cam’ season 2 premiered on December 3, 2019, on Investigation Discovery. The season, after spanning 10 episodes, went on a mid-season break on February 18, 2020. Well, after a hiatus of almost three months, the season is making a comeback. ‘Body Cam’ season 2 episode 11 is slated to premiere on June 2, 2020, at 10 pm ET.
Body Cam Cast: Who’s in it?
‘Body Cam’ contains real-life documentaries and the narration of these stories is done by J. V. Martin, a famous voice actor who has narrated for many documentaries and TV shows. Real-life docu-series are not really known for a familiar returning cast, as the actors are chosen in each season as per the demands of the scripts.
What is Body Cam About?
‘Body Cam’ is an action-packed series describing the live situations of police officers encountering crimes in their day to day lives. One can actually witness the pressure they sustain to take instant decisions on which their lives depend. With the help of the cameras attached to their bodies, audiences believe they are actually with them on the sites of crime. It gives viewers an idea of the unusual and potentially dangerous activities undertaken by law enforcement officers.
“Body cameras are meant to provide accountability and, while such footage oftentimes faces public scrutiny, we hope that this series will shed some further light on the dangers that officers regularly face in their daily effort to keep us safe,” said Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, American Heroes Channel, and Destination America.
He added, “Indeed, by showing actual footage of these harrowing encounters, Body Cam not only offers an intimate and intense look at law enforcement but also provides the viewer with a visceral sense of what life is like for those who must, on occasion, risk their lives to protect ours.”
Some of the cases documented include law enforcement officers matching wits with a lone gunman, a deadly break up between two lovers, a little boy who finds his life at stake amidst traffic, and State Trooper injured severely at the hands of a killer, among others. Each unfortunate incident is closely followed as officers struggle to put an end to them.
In another episode, a heavily armed detective along with his team pursues a potentially fatal search warrant where things go way out of hand and the team finds itself under heavy fire. A deranged man with a knife is chased on foot by the police and the situation could just as easily go out of hand.
Further, a convicted felon steals a truck and drives about recklessly, ramming anything on his way to escape pursuit. There are several unusual cases recorded, one such being of a partially naked man who attacks an officer out of the blue, injuring him heavily. We visit a County Jail where a gunman brings officers under the firing line, leaving one grasping for his life.
We follow these officers as they track down armed carjackers while under fire, nab muggers, thieves and killers, and prevent attempted murderers. Their aim is to avert potentially dangerous crimes and eventually eradicate misdemeanors, infractions, illegal activities and violations. In another turn of events, an innocent dispute turns deadly and results in a hostage situation where children’s lives are endangered. We see an accident take the form of multiple killing and as the police rush to the scene, these armed killers flee.
Each episode brings to light deadly encounters faced by the police officers in an up, close, and personal manner which makes it so thrilling. So, make sure you don’t miss the series if you are into cop shows.
Body Cam Trailer
Check out ‘Body Cam’s second season official trailer below:
Body Cam Season 2
Join us for a high stakes ride-along with season two of Body Cam, starting December 3rd at 10/9c!Watch a sneak peak of the season premiere on #IDGO ➡️ https://id.network/2spnzKD
Posted by Investigation Discovery on Wednesday, November 27, 2019
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Joker Movie Shares Footage and Teases Trailer
By Mike Julianelle
(Instagram/Jokermovie)
You may have heard there’s a new Joker movie coming out.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as the man who becomes The Joker, and directed by Todd Phillips, the man who made “You’re my boy, Blue!” a thing, the serious take on the future Batman supervillain hits theaters on October 4th, and early buzz says it may even compete for Oscars.
It’s hard to tell at this point, given that we’ve seen nothing but some early shots from the set and a brief teaser that leans on Arthur Fleck before he becomes Batman’s arch-nemesis. But as the release date approaches, were getting more information.
The cast includes a murderer’s row of hot talent, including Robert De Niro, Marc Maron, and Zazie Beetz and Bryan Tyree Henry of Atlanta fame (to say the least). Today, on the movie’s Instagram account, six brief teasers were posted, each offering a tantalizing glimpse at the world of the movie, and each featuring a hidden message flashed within.
Five of the trailers feature cryptic footage of Joaquin Phoenix, in the rain, running down New York City streets, practicing his smile, dancing on steps, and climbing into his fridge(?). The last one features Robert DeNiro as what looks like a Johnny Carson-esque late-night host, which seemingly gives credence to early reports that the movie was influenced by Martin Scorcese’s De Niro starring classic “The King of Comedy.”
The footage is minor, but the keen eye may notice that when stitched together, the teasers offer a clue towards when we might see more of the movie. Inside each of the posts is a flash of text, which, when put together, spells out: “trailer 8.28.”
So stay tuned. And whet your appetite with these Instagram posts.
A post shared by Joker Movie (@jokermovie) on Aug 25, 2019 at 9:04am PDT
Might as well brush-up on the first trailer before the next one drops:
Son “Fixes” Family Photo as a Gift for His Dad and Now It’s a Work of Art
By Yael Meshulam
(TikTok/kylescheele)
There’s an entire website dedicated to the hilarity of “Awkward Family Photos,” and in a series of videos, TikTok user kylescheele reminds us why we love them so dang much. For some reason, traditional family photos are often bizarre. From strange coordinated outfits to poses that look so unnatural they may as well be aliens doing their best human impressions, there’s no shortage of things that can go wrong. But after staring at the same family photo for decades, Kyle decided to make some changes.
In part one of Kyle’s TikTok, he gives some background on the photo in question. In the scope of things, the picture isn’t horrible. In fact, it would have been a pretty acceptable family photo aside from one small problem. Even though it’s been hanging in his house for decades, Kyle’s dad hates that freaking picture (understandably).
Kyle explains, “for no discernable reason, the photographer had only my dad tilt his head, but my dad didn’t know that until after the photo was already developed.”
Maybe a small head tilt doesn’t sound like something that would ruin a photo, but uh, it definitely ruined the photo. In a picture full of family members looking straight forward, plopped in the middle is Kyle’s dad, staring crookedly at the camera.
The photo has been hanging in the same spot for roughly three decades thanks to Kyle’s mom who unironically loves it. But as a gift to his dad, Kyle decided to put his Photoshop skills to use and fix the photo once and for all.
In a stroke of absolute genius, Kyle decided to not only to straighten his dad’s face in the photo but to tilt the faces of everyone else in the picture. He orders a large, framed copy of the new and improved family photo, and even though he’s seen it before, he is thoroughly tickled when he opens the box.
@kylescheeleThis is the best gift idea I’ve ever had. ##greenscreen ##photoshop ##christmas ##gift ##family ##familypictures ##funny♬ original sound – kylescheele
Finally, it’s time for part two. The moment of truth. Without cracking a smile, Kyle hands his dad the wrapped work of art. As his dad begins to pull back the paper, a smile spreads across his face. He turns the photo to Kyle’s mom, and as soon as she processes exactly what her brilliant son did, she bursts into uncontrollable laughter.
The new picture transcends the category of “family photo” and is now more accurately a work of art, one that will hopefully hang in the family’s house for decades to come. Legend has it that if you hold your ear to your own awkward family photo, you can still hear Kyle’s mom laughing to this day.
@kylescheeleI’ll put my mom’s laugh against yours any day. ##photoshop ##dadlean ##christmas ##gift ##part2♬ original sound – kylescheele
Betty White Turns 99 Tomorrow and Credits a Sense of Humor for Her Health
By Mark Chalifoux
(Getty/Amanda Edwards)
The comedy legend, who has been spending her COVID quarantine safely at home, hanging out with ducks, is turning 99 this weekend. How does a Hollywood icon celebrate 99? By making sure she’s around for 100, so continuing to stay home amid the pandemic…and still feeding her ducks.
“What am I doing for my birthday?…Working on getting ‘The Pet Set’ re-released and feeding the two ducks who come to visit me every day,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
Betty White turns 99 in less than a week! 🎉 https://t.co/l7eRNxlsx7
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) January 13, 2021
“Betty White’s Pet Set” was a show in the early 70s featuring White with celebrities and their pets, ranging from dogs and cats to elephants, tiger sand zebras. The show is getting re-released for its 50th anniversary on February 23rd.
In a year that saw us lose many comedy icons, including Carl Reiner and Fred Willard, the beloved White continues to write the book on aging with grace.
She said the one thing that keeps her going is a sense of humor.
“Don’t take yourself too seriously. You can lie to others, not that I would, but you cannot lie to yourself,” she told People. She also echoed that as her advice for living a happy and long life.
“Having a sense of humor and looking at the positive side, and not dwelling on the downside,” she said. “Takes too much energy being negative. Also having a good agent who keeps me busy all the time.”
While COVID numbers continue to climb throughout North America, and wreaking special havoc on the elderly, we have to be thankful to the duck family for keeping Betty White happy and sane through the worst of it, and for being the only ones to help the legendary actor celebrate turning 99.
Please… I’m just here for the ingredients and directions
12 Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week 1/15/21
(Getty/Hello Africa, Twitter/simoncholland)
Possibly the funniest thing about kids is that they don’t realize just how funny they are. Seemingly out of nowhere, kids pull out comedy gold and deliver it with complete sincerity. No matter how frequently it happens, it catches us off guard in the best possible way. Thankfully, Twitter parents share their kids’ funniest moments, inviting us to laugh along with them. Here are 12 of this week’s funniest parenting tweets, featuring both hilarious parents and their hilarious kids.
As long as you get the worst parts out, they should be fine
The biggest parenting challenge you ever face is raising the “you” out of your kids
— Richard Dean (@dad_on_my_feet) January 13, 2021
Honestly that’s a steal
I’m not up-to-date on blackmail rates, but my kid is asking for a bowl of doritos and a bag of fruit snacks… does that sound fair for witnessing me break a lamp?
— wheaties~on~a~hill (@wheatiesmdub) January 12, 2021
Parenting is an enigma
My 4yo just taught himself to whistle, and how something so damn annoying can make me feel so damn proud I don’t even know.
— WTFDAD (@daddydoubts) January 8, 2021
Absolute genius
My “do not disturb” sign was completely ignored by the kids when I had to get some work done, so I replaced it with “If you knock, you will do chores.”
I haven’t had this much alone time in 14 years. I think I’m on to something here.
— Shannon Carpenter (@HossmanAtHome) January 11, 2021
It’s not *the worst* nickname
Son: the devil made me do it
Me: what did I say about that
Son: not to call my sister the devil
— 🧙♂️Nostradumbass🧙♂️ (@The_Albinoshrek) January 11, 2021
This is a big brain move
Me: What do you want for dinner?
Child: McDonald’s.
Me: I’m not buying McDonald’s. What do you want me to make?
Child: A Big Mac.
— Rodney Lacroix (@RodLacroix) January 12, 2021
Kids are brutal, part 2
My 2yo pointed at the octopus in the book we were reading and called it dada if any of you were wondering how attractive I am in real life
— Average Dad (@Average_Dad1) January 9, 2021
So awake, in fact, that I may never sleep again
[5:45 AM, in a harsh whisper]
Daddy, don’t worry, you can sleep. I’m making my own breakfast, how do you turn on the stove?
Me: I’m up.
— Simon Holland (@simoncholland) January 10, 2021
Just for 5 minutes, I want to see the world the way my kid sees the world
“Wait…there are PEOPLE in Australia?!?!” My son and I talk about kangaroos, koalas, and Tasmanian devils pretty much nonstop, but I guess I’d neglected to mentioned that, yeah, humans hang out there too. All this time he thought it was “more like a Zootopia kind of place.”
— Henpecked Hal (@HenpeckedHal) January 12, 2021
It’s so hard to get mad at a response like that and they know it
i put 5 in bed last night. lights off. door closed. then i heard him scream bloody murder. i ran in and 11 is there by his bed. he thought it was a good idea to hide in the closet and come out in the dark. i asked him what he was thinking and he said “i’m a moron”. the end.
— Dadman Walking (@dadmann_walking) January 12, 2021
He May be onto something
11: I don’t like that kid, he’s my March enemy
Me: I’m sorry, your what?
— DaddyJew (@DaddyJew) January 14, 2021
Did you miss last week’s funniest parenting tweets?
Spoil Your Pup With Ben and Jerry’s Frozen Doggie Desserts
(Instagram/benandjerrys)
This is not a good time for many people. You know who IS loving this era, though? Dogs. It has never been a better time to be a man’s best friend. For starters, most of us are home WAY MORE than ever before. On top of that, we’ve had our first dog beer invented so we could take our bro-ship to the next level and Budweiser unveiled their Barkweiser 7-pack that comes with a beer-shaped dog toy for your pup. And now this: Ben and Jerry’s is getting into their game by creating the first line of frozen dog treats.
It’s the first product in the company’s four decades that is specifically created for an animal. The company has always had a pet-friendly approach, both in the founders’ passion for environmental causes, and in their policy to office dogs (there are many four-legged friends roaming the offices). The treats are being sold in individual 4-ounce cups or in packs for four.
Pontch’s Mix, the first treat, has frozen peanut butter, pretzel swirls, and was named after an office French Bulldog.
Rosie’s Batch has creamy pumpkin and mini dog-friendly cookies and is named for a rescue mutt in the corporate headquarters.
The Doggie Desserts are available everywhere now and are even safe for humans to eat (although seems kinda rude tbh). Since dogs don’t do dairy (generally), the treats are made with sunflower butter, so they are perfectly safe and delicious for dogs.
“We know our fans love their dogs and treat them like family,” said a spokesman for Ben and Jerry’s. “We created this line so pups can enjoy something even better than belly rubs.”
There have never been more ways to spoil your dogs, but if you can’t do it during a global pandemic, when can you? The frozen dog treats are available at supermarkets and chain stores everywhere.
Father Figures: Reluctant Dad
“I spent years convincing myself that I never wanted to be a dad. I had such strong feelings about the poor relationship between myself and my own father that I feared ever being viewed by someone in that same light.
I worked diligently to build a great career and pay off all debt prior to even thinking about having kids, thinking that maybe setting them up for a life free from those hardships might help me avoid the same pitfalls that my own father encountered.
Finally came the news from my wife that we were expecting. I was nervous and apprehensive. My greatest fear had always been being a bad father and now I was going to get my test.
We went to our ultrasound extremely naïve, already planning for how our lives were about to change. The tech calmly put down her equipment and told us that there was no heartbeat and the pregnancy wasn’t viable.
I was devastated. Devastated for my wife. Devastated for our plans. Devastated that I couldn’t do anything to ease my wife’s pain.
We went through three consecutive miscarriages and dozens of tests, all to be diagnosed with bad luck. With our fourth attempt my fear of being a bad father had shifted. My greatest fear now was never getting to be one.
Finally: a heartbeat. Hope.
We endured one more miscarriage scare during our fourth pregnancy but it proved to only be a hiccup.
I’m now 6 months into this dad thing and I can honestly say I’ve never been part of anything better than this. I can’t imagine not being this little girl’s daddy.”
– Scott Dillon
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Fans React to Chris Evans Picking up the Captain America Shield Again
(Marvel)
In somewhat shocking news, Chris Evans is nearing an official return to Marvel movies, picking up the shield again to reprise his role as Captain America. According to Deadline, Evans will be bringing Captain America back in at least one movie, possibly more. The caveat, though, is that he won’t be the main draw, he’ll be a secondary character, sort of like Robert Downey’s Iron Man in a few of the MCU movies.
Evans was a great Captain America, so why are fans shocked? Because his ending in Avengers: Endgame seemed really well done for the character. It was a great send-off to Cap and that whole phase of the MCU. I mean come on, he literally even took the Captain America shield and passed it off to Falcon at the end of the movie. What better passing of the torch could you ask for?
But Evans hasn’t had enough of Steve Rogers, though the details as to which film he’ll be in are still unclear. Is it the most shocking reversal when it comes to movies? I mean no, clearly not, as long as it’s done well and not just haphazard (looking at you, Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker). Maybe it’ll be some sort of Dr. Strange, alternate reality thing, or maybe a flashback-y movie.
Fans…are split, to say the least. Some are PSYCHED to see one of the MCU’s most beloved superheroes back in action, while others think it could diminish his great ending in Endgame.
CHRIS EVANS IS COMING BACK AS CAP BRO WTH?!
— SAINT NICKALAS (@MegaLucarioX) January 14, 2021
Chris Evans trending like the king that he is. Always booked and busy and now also returning as Captain America??? Legendaric. pic.twitter.com/DCjAc3fTFw
— Kayden | Breakdown era (@IIKaydenII) January 14, 2021
[Steve Rogers gently dancing with Peggy Carter as the world events of the 1950s through 2010s occur uninterrupted] https://t.co/maaqj2JMwQ
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 14, 2021
Na not Steve coming back from spending time in peak racism era with Peggy to take back the job he gave to a black man. https://t.co/t5qUJGA5Lg
— ☀️Sun Tzilla🦖 (@SunTzilla) January 14, 2021
PEGGY [reading newspaper] says here The Rolling Stones are going to play a free concert at the Altamont Speedway
STEVE [awkwardly changing subject] oh, say, I wonder who’s on Ed Sullivan tonight
When Marvel Studios asked Chris Evans to come back as Captain America pic.twitter.com/8bWES723Rw
— Fandom (@getFANDOM) January 14, 2021
Even Chris Evans tried to play it off, saying on Twitter that it was “news to me.”
News to me🤷🏻♂️
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 14, 2021
Marvel has a TON of new projects and heroes on their plate, and no shortage of difficult situations to navigate (like a Black Panther-less Black Panther), so Evans returning to his iconic role adds another interesting twist to the new direction.
Jim Carrey Wins a Critics Choice Award for “Best Villain” in Sonic Movie
By Nigel Jones
(Paramount Pictures)
Two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey can now add another award to his resume… for his role in a film about a talking hedgehog.
Announced on the Critics Choice Awards website, Jim Carrey took home a ‘Critics Choice Super Award’ for his role as Dr. Robotnik in the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Formed in 1995, the Critics Choice Association (which is still one of the largest collections of film critics in North America) has been providing annual ‘Super Awards’. These awards honor films and performances in genres that are typically overlooked by the Academy, such as Superhero, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Horror, & Action.
I think this is such a cool idea. There are some really great performances in plenty of films each year, and awards like these allow more actors to be recognized.
If you’ve seen the Sonic movie, you have to admit, Carrey was one of the best parts. It might have just been classic Carrey, but he was still very entertaining. What was initially thought to become a disaster in the history of video game movies after that first trailer released, Sonic the Hedgehog would end up grossing over $300 million worldwide at the box office. My family and I saw it in theaters and have watched it at least a dozen times at home since we purchased the digital edition. With a sequel now greenlit, Sonic and Sega fans have plenty to look forward to in the future.
I’m just so glad they went with the redesigned Sonic. The first trailer with the original design they were going to use gave me nightmares for a week. I don’t think I would have slept again for the rest of my life if I had to stare at this thing for an hour and a half.
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GoldenEye 007 Gets a New Custom Mario 64/Peach’s Castle Level
(Graslu00)
When it comes to the N64, GoldenEye 007 and Super Mario 64 are some of the best games on the console. You could even argue that they’re some of the best games ever made. What do you get when you combine the two? You get something so great, I wish that original developer Rare would have just included it as a bonus level on Goldeneye’s N64 cartridge.
Developed by StupidMarioBros1Fan, this “Goldeneye with Mario Characters” mod (which originally released back in 2018) features a new Super Mario 64 Peach’s Castle level, recreated within GoldenEye. It contains the classic GoldenEye gameplay and sound effects, and even includes mission objectives and a Bowser boss fight. YouTuber Graslu00 who mainly focuses on Goldeneye and other N64-era games showcases the level in the video above and helped create and test it as well.
I just think it’s hilarious to see the Koopa’s walking around with weapons. Even the thought of Mario carrying out the mission of saving the princess “James Bond” style cracks me up.
If you want to play it for yourself you can download the mod here. This mod will replace every character in Goldeneye with Mario characters, and even changes the original dialogue to reference characters like Peach and Bowser. This new level is a fantastic addition, but if you really want to relive the entirety of GoldenEye 007 in a whole new light, this mod is definitely the way to do it.
Now if only someone would add dual flamethrowers.
Teen With Autism Becomes a Successful YouTuber Thanks To Her Dad’s Encouragement
(YouTube/ToyQuest101)
Helping kids pursue their passions is a delicate business. We want to be encouraging but not pushy, helpful but not overbearing. It’s thrilling to watch our kids fall in love with their hobbies, whether they’re short-lived or end up lasting a lifetime. Things often become more complicated when our kids internalize stigmas that shake their confidence, but with support and encouragement, every single child can be successful in their own way.
13-Year-old Illiana, as most kids do, loves watching YouTube videos. In 2017, Illiana’s dad, Miguel Figueroa, had a brilliant idea – or so he thought. His daughter lit up when she watched her favorite videos, so why not start her own channel? When he approached Illiana with the idea, he was filled with enthusiasm simply thinking about his daughter pursuing something she loved. Her response, however, turned his enthusiasm to an immense sadness.
“She said, well, I can’t, because I had autism,” he told ABC6 “And it really broke my heart.”
Figueroa was not about to let his daughter give up before she even tried, and more importantly, he wasn’t going to let her believe she couldn’t do something simply because she had autism. The father-daughter duo decorated their basement with their collection of superhero paraphernalia, laid out stacks of comic books, and made the first “Toy Quest 101” video together.
Three years later, Illiana and Miguel’s channel has nearly 120,000 subscribers on YouTube. The adorable duo feature unboxing videos, toy reviews, and even celebrity interviews. The pair bond over their mutual love of superheroes, comic books, sci-fi, and most importantly, spending time together.
Their YouTube channel explains, “Our mission is to transform the lives of children with autism and special needs worldwide and inspire the lives of children and families through our videos and our story. Our vision is to bring awareness and promote a culture of acceptance where all kids with autism and special needs can be empowered to do what they set their mind to and not feel that their disability is a road block to accomplishing their dreams and or wishes.”
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Tesla 'Bull Case' Raised to $1,000 by Wedbush
Tesla trades higher after receiving an upgrade from Wedbush Securities’ Daniel Ives, who lifts his one-year price target to $560 and says his new bull case is $1,000.
M. Corey Goldman
Nov 23, 2020 9:40 AM EST
Tesla (TSLA) - Get Report traded higher on Monday after the electric carmaker received another upgrade, this time from Wedbush Securities’ Daniel Ives, who lifted his one-year price target to $560 from $500 and said his new bull case is $1,000, up from $800.
In a research note to clients, Ives said Tesla was likely to achieve its goal of 1 million deliveries by 2023 or possibly sooner. The influential analyst also said that with Tesla’s sustained path to profitability and S&P 500 index inclusion achieved, “the Tesla bull story is now all about a stepped up EV demand trajectory into 2021.
“Overall we are seeing a major inflection of EV demand globally with our expectations that EV vehicles ramp from ~3% of total auto sales today to 10% by 2025,” he said, noting that Tesla has seen “Teflon-like demand” for its flagship Model 3's in Europe and China” throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ives’ accolades follow Standard & Poor’s announcement last week that the electric carmaker will join the S&P 500 on Dec. 21, a move that had been anticipated for months as Tesla has surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected earnings and sales, which in turn has driven its valuation to new heights.
The move prompted several Wall Street analysts to re-evaluate their longer-term expectations of Tesla, including Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jones, who raised Tesla to overweight for the first time in more than three years last week.
Like Jones, Ives also pointed to software-driven upgrades, which he said have gone “right to the bottom-line and enabled Tesla to get out of the red ink.”
Combined with cost cuts and tax credit boosts as well as still-lagging competition from the likes of Rivian and Fisker (FSR) - Get Report as well as GM (GM) - Get Report and Ford (F) - Get Report, Ives believes Tesla is still in pole position in the race to mass-produce EVs.
“Competitively speaking, we still believe at this point every auto maker is chasing after Tesla which remains the clear leader in the EV world as the company's production capabilities, battery technology/innovation, and brand awareness is unrivaled in our opinion,” Ives said.
Tesla Daily's Rob Maurer in his daily roundup of Tesla news reported that Goldman Sachs expects surging demand for Tesla stock ahead of its S&P 500 index inclusion, that the Model Y may be getting a range boost, and that the Fremont, California, police department has completed an analysis of a Tesla as a police patrol car.
Shares of Tesla were up 4.85% at $513.36 in trading on Monday.
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CORONAVIRUS IN SPORT
Coronavirus in sport LIVE: Premier League LATEST, Olympics 2021 could be CANCELLED, update on UFC ‘Fight Island’
SunSport Reporters
Updated: 13 Apr 2020, 18:19
PREMIER LEAGUE action remains suspended due to the global coronavirus epidemic and there are fresh concerns over being able to finish the current season.
The Olympic Games may be cancelled altogether as it has been revealed chiefs are worried Tokyo event will not be able to go ahead even in 2021.
Follow all the latest news and updates as the sporting world deals with the threat of coronavirus...
Ian Tuckey 13th Apr 2020, 18:18
ARSENAL ACES 'REJECT PAY CUT'
Arsenal stars have rejected pay cuts across the next year in a vote on Monday afternoon.
The Telegraph claims players were asked to consider taking 12.5 per cent cuts over the next 12 months after football was suspended due to the coronavirus crisis.
Incentives on new contracts were offered as terms, with any deducted wages being added on top of a fresh salary agreement.
Arsenal also offered to hand back the deducted money to any player who left for a transfer fee.
But the terms were unanimously rejected by players, with doubts over the summer transfer window and the long-term financial effects of the coronavirus crisis.
Arsenal are now left footing an enormous wage bill that runs to £230million each year.
Players agreeing to the 12.5 per cent cut would have saved Arsenal £25m.
Chiefs were willing to bring the figure down to 7.5 per cent if Arsenal qualified for the Europa League.
And there was a full rebate on the cards for Champions League qualification.
ITALY EYES FAN BAN
Serie A will reportedly ban fans from attending games until 2021.
Sport Mediaset claim to have unearthed Italian government documents suggesting Serie A stadiums will remain empty until January 2021 at the earliest.
It comes after federation president Gabriele Gravina confirmed plans to resume action in May.
Serie A has been on hold since early March after Italy became the first European country to strongly suffer the effects of coronavirus, and there are fears the campaign could be scrapped.
But players could start to train next month with the hope of resuming matches shortly afterwards, and some reports even suggests all 20 teams could relocate to Rome for a gladiatorial battle.
Gravina said: “As soon as the conditions are right, we’ll finish the championship.
“Soon there will be a meeting. We will establish the procedure which we will then communicate.
“We will start, I hope, at the beginning of May with tests to ensure that players are negative and training can follow.
“Will we play through the summer? We don’t have a deadline but the idea is to finish the championships.”
WELBECK'S £10K AID
Ex-Arsenal and Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck has donated £10,000 to improve conditions in his mum's hometown in Ghana. reports say.
The Watford striker, 29, who has won 42 England caps, is said to have paid for food and sanitary relief for residents in Nkawiepanin in the Atwima Nwabiagya municipality of the Ashanti region.
SCOTTISH RUGBY PLAYERS' PAY CUT
All rugby players in Scotland earning above £50,000 will be asked to take pay cuts of ten to 25 per cent until September due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Scottish Rugby also plans to furlough around three-quarters of their 450-strong staff, while their chief executive Mark Dodson will lose 30% of his wages.
The union acted amid “increasing unpredictability” in world rugby, with other executives taking a 25% reduction.
NEYM YOUR PRICE
Neymar and Kylian Mbappe – both linked with Manchester United in the past year – are among seven PSG superstars who could face the exit door after the coronavirus pandemic.
Ex-Old Trafford winger Angel Di Maria, plus another player in Edinson Cavani who is thought to have interested United are also on the illustrious list as the French champions look to cut costs.
Marca suggest PSG will need to curb their spending as football anticipates a huge financial hit due to the shutdown for Covid-19.
Barcelona remain strong favourites to re-sign Brazil hero Neymar, while his strike-partner and French World Cup winner Mbappe is tipped for Real Madrid.
Meanwhile, Di Maria has just a year left on his deal while defenders Thomas Meunier and Layvin Kurzawa are also named as likely departures.
BRIT GP DELAY FEAR
Derek Warwick fears the British Grand Prix will be postponed due to the coronavirus.
The ex-F1 ace, who is also the former president of the British Racing Drivers Association, believes Silverstone chief Stuart Pringle has no choice but to delay the race, which is scheduled for July 19.
F1 chiefs are looking at running behind closed-door events and, with seven of the 10 teams based in UK, the Northamptonshire track would be ideal.
But there will be no racing until it is deemed safe and Warwick says that will hit Silverstone in the pocket.
He said: “As a BRDC member I can only praise the board and for Stuart who has done an amazing job these last five, 10 years.
“When I was on the board and also as president I very much admired the people I was working with.
“It's going to be tough for Silverstone if we cancel and you have to say that we're not looking like we're going to be on top of this thing by the middle of July, so it will for sure, I think, be postponed hopefully for a later date.
“It's going to hurt them financially. They're not insured for this virus, that's for sure. So there will be a loss. How big that loss is I have no idea.”
<a href='http://www.thesun.co.uk/sport' rel='external nofollow ugc' class='url'>Alex Terrell</a> 13th Apr 2020, 15:53
Remember to social distance folks.
Just like Usain Bolt did in Beijing in 2008.
Social Distancing #HappyEaster pic.twitter.com/lDCAsxkOAw
— Usain St. Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) April 13, 2020
IT'S A KID'S GAME
Manchester United and Real Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo's epic work ethic in the gym has to be seen to be believed.
But who said it couldn't be fun?
Kids, let the Dad do his work 🤷🏻♂️❤️😝 #stayhome #stayactive
A post shared by Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) on Apr 13, 2020 at 5:57am PDT
I'LL BE GONE 'TILL NOVEMBER
Rory McIlroy reckons moving the Masters to November could be just “what I need” to complete the career Grand Slam.
With two USPGA titles, the open and the US Open in the bag, McIlroy has already launched five unsuccessful bids to become only the sixth player to win all four Majors.
With the Masters now scheduled as the final Major of the year instead of the first, the world No 1 clearly fancies his chances of pulling on a green jacket.
He said: “I feel like there’s anticipation going to Augusta as the first big event of the year. There’s all this hype.
“I don’t think it’ll feel like that this year, I think it’ll feel a little bit different, which I’m looking forward to.
“It’s going to be a different Masters and personally – selfishly – maybe that’s what I need to get the jacket.”
BRAG OF THE NET
Playboy model Laura Bragato has revealed pal Jesse Lingard has been texting her while in lockdown.
Manchester United could reap the rewards of the midfielder's antics as her bum is believed to be a good luck charm.
Speaking to the Daily Star from her home in Italy, she said: “I spoke to Jesse yesterday, and he is staying home like the rest of us.
“He is safe. In Italy we are all on lockdown, it's been one month and I really hope everything is going to start again here.
“I am taking care of myself, let the stress go, I do my beauty routine every day, I watch movies and cook good Italian food, that's all.
“When it's over, I can't wait to travel. I want to spend my summer in Spain and London.”
ROBBERY AT COUNTY
Newport are hunting for callous thieves who broke into their training ground during the lockdown.
The League Two club have appealed for information following the raid.
A club statement said: “Newport County AFC were appalled, given the current environment, to find its training base has been broken into.
“If anyone is offered any Newport County apparel or if they know anything about the incident, they are urged to contact the police.”
MORE ON SPURS
Tottenham have reversed their decision to furlough staff during the coronavirus pandemic amid criticism from supporters, the Premier League club said in a statement.
Spurs had imposed a 20 per cent pay cut on 550 non-playing staff in April and May to protect jobs.
But the club said on Monday that only board members would see salary reductions and all other employees – whether full-time, casual, or furloughed – would be paid 100 per cent of their wages for April and May.
Daniel Levy said: “The criticism the club has received over the last week has been felt all the more keenly because of our track record of good works and our huge sense of responsibility to care for those that rely on us, particularly locally.
Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust had said the club's decision to use the government scheme, where employers can claim for 80 per cent of furloughed staff's monthly wages up to £2,500 per month – was harming its reputation.
Spurs said that medical equipment had been installed in their stadium to operate drive-through COVID-19 testing and swabbing for NHS staff, families and their dependents.
FOOD FIT FOR A KING
Tyson Fury staged a heavyweight Easter lockdown with his family by ordering in a gut-busting £557 food delivery.
The Gypsy King and reality TV star missus Paris isolated in style with a mountain of pizza and top-quality nosh.
Their mammoth feast was shared with the couple’s five children and Paris’s parents at the boxing star’s home near Morecambe, Lancs.
Grinning WBC heavyweight champion Tyson, 31, told the face-masked delivery driver to stand two metres back as he stacked pizza boxes and food bags on the doorstep before handing him a £100 tip.
The Saturday night takeaway, which was ferried in heated bags, included a stack of pizzas, four mixed grill platters, four chicken wing platters, two steak meals and five king prawn dishes.
Spurs have backtracked on their decision to make staff take pay cuts.
The North London club have confirmed all non-playing staff who have been asked to reduce their salaries will, in fact, receive 100 per cent of their pay.
Tottenham have furloughed some of their staff through the government's emergency payment scheme, just a year after opening their stunning new £1billion stadium.
GAME, SEPT, MATCH
Khabib Nurmagomedov is plotting a September return to the octagon having pulled out of UFC 249 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Nurmagomedov, 31, was due to defend his lightweight belt against No1 ranked challenger Tony Ferguson on April 18 in Brooklyn.
But the fight got cancelled for a FIFTH time, as champion Khabib returned home to Russia and would be unable to travel back for the pay-per-view event, which was set to take place at the Tachi Palace Casino Resort in California on tribal land.
It mattered little as Ferguson's replacement interim title fight against Justin Gaethje was scrapped as defiant UFC boss Dana White was finally ordered by top Disney and ESPN bosses to axe the event altogether.
With Nurmagomedov back in line to finally face Ferguson again, the fearsome grappler hinted he is “getting ready for war” as he continues to train.
He wrote on Instagram: “Yet, it's not too far until September.
“Although it's hard to believe, that everything will be over by September.”
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
Boxing legend and iconic New York bar owner Jimmy Glenn is fighting coronavirus in hospital aged 89 but is “showing mild improvement”.
The former cut man to heavyweight Michael Spinks contracted the deadly COVID-19 bug before being hospitalised, but is on the mend and without a ventilator.
Proter Lou DiBElla tweeted: “Send prayers, love and positive energy to nyc’s wonderful, legendary Jimmy Glenn.
“Jimmy tested positive for covid19 and is in the hospital.
“He’s doing ok right now, not ventilated, and showing mild improvement. 89yrs young, we need boxing’s OG back at jimmyscorner.”
Praying for my pal Jimmy Glenn. Jimmy’s Corner has the coldest beer in midtown Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/fGdpDmeX8A
— Ryan Songalia (@ryansongalia) April 13, 2020
Not this kid, anyway.
When you just can’t be bothered 😩 😂
🎥: tennis4fitness (IG) | #tennisathome pic.twitter.com/nXFRDTzKvd
— ATP Tour (@atptour) April 13, 2020
Tyson Fury and wife Paris are going to broadcast a workout on Instagram live after fans voted for them to get involved in a workout with brother Tommy and fellow Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague.
Our first celebrity couple is @tommytntfury & @mollymaehague join us live at 9am for the workout 🏋️♀️👍🏻🙏🏻
A post shared by Tyson Fury (@gypsyking101) on Apr 13, 2020 at 2:21am PDT
Stoke have confirmed the club's legendary right-back Jackie Marsh is at home self-isolating after contracting coronavirus.
The 71-year-old has been diagnosed after being taken to hospital last week with suspected pneumonia.
It is good news for the former player though, after he was released from hospital and allowed to go home and recover.
Fingers crossed he will be well soon enough, following a period of isolation.
Marsh made 440 appearances for Stoke over 12 seasons at the old Victoria Ground.
Get well soon to Potters legend Jackie Marsh who is self-isolating at home after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
"We'll be with you"#SCFC 🔴⚪ pic.twitter.com/5Gc4gl6h7K
— S t o k e C i t y F C (@stokecity) April 13, 2020
RIGHT AND RON
Cristiano Ronaldo has been slammed for training on a football pitch by a rival club.
Lazio’s director of communications Arturo Diaconale said: “The impression I have is that there is some favouritism.
“I am referring to the clubs to which their players are allowed to travel abroad, who will now return and do a quarantine period to return to training at the same time as those of Lazio.
“The difference is that we followed the rules and stayed at home, unlike others.
“I’ve seen videos from Portugal showing some marvellous images of Cristiano Ronaldo training out on a football pitch.
“Others have been able to train in peace abroad without restrictions, while we are not allowed to do the same in Italy.”
Tottenham star Son Heung-min has begged fans not to watch his military service stint and follow government guidelines.
The South Korean international will begin his four-week mandatory national service immediately, with the ex-Bayer Leverkusen forward not expected back in England until May.
Son, 27, headed back to his native country to partake in the service following his stint in isolation.
A statement on his Facebook page revealed fans and reporters have been in contact asking if they could watch him in action.
It read: “As large gatherings have been discouraged due to the COVID-19 virus and as we are working to comply with government policy, we will not be opening this event up to the public.
“This decision is being made to ensure the safety of the fans and reporters and to prevent any dangerous situations from arising.”
FIX A DATE
Premier League clubs this week hope to pinpoint a specific date to resume the season, reports SunSport's Charlie Wyett.
The 20 teams will meet in a video conference this Friday to speak about coronavirus crisis issues.
German clubs are back in training, in groups of five, and are hoping to restart the campaign in May and finish it by June.
And the Premier League has pencilled in a June restart, knowing Uefa bosses want all campaigns completed by August.
Some top-flight clubs have warned players they could be back in training on May 11 while some EFL sides would like their squad to return on May 4.
But now, leagues will discuss potentially having a restart, with 92 matches still to play and they reckon around 250 staff are needed to host games behind closed doors.
JUST TRYING TO ALP
Chris Froome and his fellow Team Ineos stars teamed up to raise money for charity as they raced off against each other in the virtual cycling world Zwift.
The riders went up the game's biggest climb, known as Alpe du Zwift, which is an imitation of the Tour de France's most famous climb, Alpe d'Huez.
The race was won, not by Froome, but my his new team-mate Rohan Dennis, in 58 minutes, which is reportedly a new record for the climb, while the four-time Tour de France winner was sixth.
Froome still has to rediscover his best form after a horrendous crash last year that saw him miss the Tour.
This is no joke 🥴 Live now on @youtube @TeamINEOS pic.twitter.com/g6UioxORBh
— Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) April 12, 2020
It's @RohanDennis who has moved to the fore on the early slopes. We're not sure about that hair though!? 9km to go on @GoZwift.
WATCH LIVE 📺:
YouTube: https://t.co/JHBxwjImn7
Facebook: https://t.co/FMmu4z2U7T pic.twitter.com/FzvNyfkDpM
— Team INEOS (@TeamINEOS) April 12, 2020
BONE IDOL
BBC Sport commentator Andrew Cotter's dogs have become a viral sensation over the past couple of weeks after the golf, rugby and athletics announcer put up videos of his labradors eating dinner and tussling over a bone.
The videos the Scot and his two pooches Olive and Mabel have been viewed over 20MILLION times on Twitter.
One thing is for sure, it shows his mastery of the tricky art of commentary.
Some sports are slower. More about the strategy. pic.twitter.com/JMBaGJ1tSd
— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) April 9, 2020
Wembley and St George's Park could be used as neutral venues to help finish the Premier League season, according to reports.
The FA-owned facilities would be incorporated into a plan to shield players from contact with the general public.
Meanwhile, the Burton-on-Trent complex, which opened in 2012 at a cost of £105million, has a hotel on site and could be used to isolate stars from prying eyes of fans, who may be tempted to leave their homes.
The Premier League favours hosting matches behind closed doors and it would be easier for chiefs to ring-fence stars inside the countryside venue rather than at football grounds, which tend to be surrounded by housing.
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Boris Johnson promises 24/7 vaccination service 'as soon as we can'
Boris Johnson promises 24/7 Covid-19 vaccinations
By Kieran Doody @kierandoody UK Trending Editor
Boris Johnson promises 24/7 Covid-19 vaccinations. (PA)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the NHS will launch a 24/7 vaccination service as soon as possible.
The Prime Minister said the process of protecting people from coronavirus was already going “exceptionally fast” but “at the moment the limit is on supply” of the vaccine.
“We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,” he told MPs.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson said: “At the moment the limit is on supply, we have a huge network – 233 hospitals, 1,000 GP surgeries, 200 pharmacies and 50 mass vaccination centres and they are going… exceptionally fast.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he understood that pilot 24-hour centres were not yet open to the public but there would be a “huge clamour”.
Mr Hancock earlier questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation.
He said the NHS was “absolutely up for doing that” but “most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help”.
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Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch Whisky
The entry level blended Scotch whisky from the house of Johnnie Walker, Red Label is a NAS (No Age Statement) drink that was previously known as the Special Old Highland before being rebranded in 1909.
Part of the rich history of the Johnnie Walker brand for over a century, it has been enthusiastically promoted by Johnnie Walker for use in mixed drinks such as cocktails. Sold in over 180 countries worldwide per the claims made by the company, it is certainly a Scotch whisky with many years of history behind it.
History of Johnnie Walker
The brand itself, founded in 1820 in the form of a grocery store owned by John Walker’s family, rose to prominence in the world of whisky when the prohibitions over the blending of malt whiskies with grain whiskies was lifted by the government in 1860.
Sadly, John Walker had passed away in 1857 and the reins of the company were in the hands of his son, Alexander ‘Alec’ Walker, and grandson, Alexander Walker II, who favored whisky as the commodity of choice for the Johnnie Walker brand.
Over the years, the Johnnie Walker blends changed a lot of recipes before Alec blended their first commercial bottle, naming it Old Highland Whisky and registering the name in 1867.
The Johnnie Walker inventory grew to three different expressions under George and Alexander Walker II by 1909 with the Old Highland (5-year-old), Special Old Highland (9-year-old) and Extra Special Old Highland (12-year-old) becoming a part of it.
These three expressions would go on to be named White Label, Red Label and Black Label respectively. As the brand continued to grow with stakes being bought in several distilleries across Scotland, the Johnnie Walker inventory grew to include new expressions while the White Label was dropped from the list.
Red Label continues to be one of the oldest blends from Johnnie Walker to be globally available although it was changed to be a NAS Scotch whisky a few years after it was rebranded as the ‘Red Label’ from its previous name ‘Special Old Highland.’
Johnnie Walker Red Label Characteristics and Facts
The Johnnie Walker Red Label is a blended Scotch whisky created using light whiskies from the East Coast of Scotland, and heavier, peatier whiskies from the West.
It is clear amber in color as compared to the other slightly darker expressions from Johnnie Walker.
The Johnnie Walker was a particular favorite of British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill who preferred to mix it with water, and drink it throughout the day.
Johnnie Walker Red Label Alcohol Percentage
This blended Scotch whisky has an alcohol strength of 40% Alcohol by Volume.
Johnnie Walker Red Label Tasting Notes
https://www.johnniewalker.com/en-in/our-whisky/johnnie-walker-colours/red-label/
Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch Whisky Tasting Notes
Spicy aromas of pepper and cinnamon, soft smoke and hints of honey.
Sweet, fruity with traces of fresh apple and pear, Christmas cake and plum
A long, smoky finish.
Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch Whisky
The deluxe blended Scotch whisky from the house of Johnnie Walker, Black Label alongside the Red Label is one of the oldest expressions from the brand. Christened with the name Black Label in 1909 prior to which it was known as the Extra Special Old Highland Scotch Whisky.
Johnnie Walker platinum label
Johnnie Walker Platinum Label 18 Year Old was inspired by the tradition of giving private blends to a close circle of family friends by John Walker & Sons. Blended from whiskies that have matured for at least 18 years, it combines sophisticated and contemporary tastes with classic Johnnie Walker flavours. When you want to make a special occasion truly exceptional, Johnnie Walker Platinum Label 18 Year Old is the discerning choice.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is an unrivalled masterpiece. It is an exquisite blend made from some of Scotland’s rarest and most exceptional whiskies. Only one in every ten thousand casks has the elusive quality, character and flavour to deliver the’ remarkable signature taste of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. An extraordinary whisky for extraordinary occasions.
Johnnie Walker Double Black is Johnnie Walker® Black Label® amplified, taking its intensity to unexplored territory. Hand-picked whiskies that are defined by notes of smoldering charcoal, including more Islay malts, are chosen for their smoky profile. Then once matured in heavily-charred oak casks, the result is not only a smokier blend, but an unquestionably smooth liquid as well.
White Walker by Johnnie Walker
Send a raven – Scotch has officially entered the realm. Johnnie Walker is proud to present this limited-edition Scotch whisky, inspired by the most enigmatic and feared characters on the hit HBO® show Game of Thrones - the White Walkers.
Johnnie Walker Blue Scotch
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is an unrivaled masterpiece – an exquisite combination of Scotland’s rarest and most exceptional whiskies. Only one in every ten thousand casks has the elusive quality, character and flavor to deliver the remarkable signature taste. An extraordinary whisky for extraordinary occasions.
Johnnie Walker Green Label
Green Label is arguably the richest horse in the Johnnie Walker stable. This blended malt whisky travels the regions of Scottish whisky production and conveys the whirlwind of flavours to your mouth. Hearty.
Johnnie Walker XR Scotch
Johnnie Walker XR was inspired by the hand-written blending notes of Sir Alexander Walker, the grandson of the legendary Johnnie Walker. A luxurious blend from the exclusive reserve of aged casks, including that of the now quiet distillery of Brora. Aged for an extended period of 21 years this exceptional legacy blend is both warm and spicy to the palate with layers of complexity to suit the discerning whisky drinker.
Clan Campbell 8 Year Malt Scotch
This Pure or blended malt is 8 years old.
Scottish Collie Scotch
"The finest Grain Whiskies and Malt Whiskies from Scotland produced by milling, mashing, fermentation, distillation and then maturation for a minimum of 3 years in oak casks are blended together to create Scottish Collie Blended Scotch Whisky.
Officers Choice Blue Whisky
Officer’s Choice Blue is a premium variant of Officer’s Choice. It is a fine blend of scotch malts and select Indian grain spirits. Officer’s Choice Blue almost touched 8 million cases with a national market share of 13.4 in FY 2015-16. An elegantly designed, well-shaped pack gives it a premium and scotch-like look and feel. It has earned the distinction of being the first brand in the alcobev industry to introduce the innovative Twist-Lock and Tear-Off caps.
Ballantine’s 30 Year Old
The Ballantine’s 30 is an excellent vintage blended Scotch whisky from one of the most iconic and enduring house of blended whisky in Scotland. It is the second most vintage expression from the Ballantine’s core range, and was developed by the second Master Blender in the brand’s 180-year history, George Robertson.
United Brands Private Label Scotch
Outstanding Scotch whiskey, made in the traditional way. Aged in oak barrels for at least five years. One of the most famous Scotch whiskey in the wor
APPRECIATING A DRAM WITH THE RIGHT TASTING NOTES
Whisky, by the virtue of its exalting finesse and grandeur, demands appreciation. It is invariably meant for sipping and savouring. The following are few crucial pointers that will help you transform your overall whisky journey.
Redemption Rye’s goal is to bring back the classic American Rye cocktail. While the Federal law states that a whiskey must be 51% rye grain to be classified as a rye we chose to push our grain content to 95%. This not only pushes the flavor forward, it also magnifies the unique profile of the rye grains.
Calvert Extra Whiskey
A good blend of fruit and spices in a delicate style.
Binnies Whisky
Yet another millionaire brand from the house of Jagatjit, this special malted whisky is designed for the macho man. Real value for money, this brand leader has more than 50% market share in its segment.
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Winning run for William Hill
By Steve Hawkes
Updated: 19:00 EST, 7 September 2003
BETTING-crazy Britons are pushing bookie William Hill towards a bumper year as they gamble ever more on horse races, football and virtual casinos.
Traditional horse racing now accounts for 41% of group revenue, against 60% three years ago, as punters chance their arms at roulette, David Beckham's future in Spain and even reality TV shows.
Despite growing diversity, the average bet in the group's core chain of betting shops has leapt from £6.50 to £8.50 in the past 12 months.
Chief executive David Harding said: 'Are we bet crazy? I think we probably are. It's a national pastime in the UK and there is now not just horse racing but Big Brother and football. Disposable income is going up faster than inflation and people are not saving as much, so there is more to be spent.'
Underlying profits raced ahead 27% in the six months to 1 July to £101.9m on turnover of £2.7bn, up 72%.
And although Britons are betting more, they are also getting worse at it with William Hill's gross win - the measure of the firm's success against its customers - rising 18%.
Much of the group's purple patch comes from the abolition of betting duty in 2001 but a key to this year's growth has been the success of in-shop fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). These allow customers to gamble on virtual greyhound races and the spin of a wheel. There are 2,525 of the machines in its 1,600 shops.
Harding said a move by the Gaming Board to challenge whether casino-style games should be allowed on FOBTs in shops did not threaten the terminal itself.
The half-year results mark the end of a buoyant summer for William Hill, whose shares have galloped up from a low of 198p in February. Today they rose 2 1/2p to 320 1/2p. Shareholders will get an interim dividend of 3.5p, up 21%.
A Dutch court decision expected tomorrow could cost Hill, its leading rival Ladbrokes and other top British internet bookmakers millions in lost revenue from European markets.
The court is expected to uphold a January 2003 decision backing De Lotto, the Dutch monopoly sports betting and lottery operator, to bar Ladbrokes.com from accepting sports or lottery wagers from Dutch residents, as Ladbrokes is in breach of Dutch law by not having a licence to operate.
John O'Reilly, Ladbrokes' managing director, said: 'Ladbrokes has a fundamental right, under the principles of the single market, to accept bets from anywhere in Europe. If the decision goes against us, we will ask the Dutch Supreme Court to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice, where we are confident of winning.'
Other European countries facing similar problems from British bookmakers, notably Norway, Sweden and Denmark, are likely to use the judgment as a test case to thwart their unlicensed expansion to mainland Europe.
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Bombast in Speech and Writing
Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms
W.C. Fields as Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield (1935 film).
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A pejorative term for pompous and inflated speech or writing. Adjective: bombastic.
Unlike eloquence, a favorable term for forceful and persuasive discourse, bombast generally refers to "empty rhetoric" or "a windy grandeur of language" (Eric Partridge).
Dickensian Bombast
"My dear Copperfield, a man who labors under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage. That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments before those emoluments are strictly due and payable. All I can say is, that my friend Heep has responded to appeals to which I need not more particularly refer, in a manner calculated to redound equally to the honor of his head and of his heart."
(Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)
Shakespearean Bombast
"Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
Neptune's salt wash, and Tellus' orbed ground;
And thirty dozen moons, with borrow'd sheen,
About the world have times twelve thirties been;
Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands,
Unite communal in most sacred bands."
(Player King in the play within a play in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III, scene two)
Bombast and Hyperbole
"Bombast and hyperbole . . . are not interchangeable terms. Hyperbole is a figure of thought and one of the devices used to achieve bombast. Bombast is a stylistic mode, a manner of speaking and writing characterized by turgid and inflated language. The Elizabethans seem to have understood bombast to be more of an acoustic and an almost renegade quality of language, in contrast to rhetoric which was generally organized into a system. . . . Hyperbole shares with bombast the force of exaggeration, but not necessarily its lexical limitlessness and inelegance."
(Goran Stanivukovic, "Shakespeare's Style in the 1590s." The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry, ed. by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013)
Alexis de Tocqueville on American Bombast
"I have often noted that Americans, who generally conduct business in clear, incisive language devoid of all ornament and often vulgar in its extreme simplicity, are likely to go in for bombast when they attempt a poetic style. In speeches their pomposity is apparent from beginning to end and, seeing how lavish they are with images at every turn, one might think they never said anything simply."
(Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835)
The Lighter Side of Platitudinous Ponderosity
The following remarks on style appeared anonymously in dozens of late-19th-century and early-20th-century periodicals, ranging from Cornhill Magazine and the Practical Druggist to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Monthly Journal. Decide for yourself whether the advice is still appropriate.
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities, and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity.
Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency.
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectation.
Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
Shun double entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.
In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from "slang"; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you say; and don't use big words!
(Anonymous, The Basket: The Journal of the Basket Fraternity, July 1904)
"Honey, don't let the blonde hair fool you. Although bombastic forms of circumlocution should be generally avoided, one mustn't shy away from big words in the right context."
(Aphrodite in "Punch Lines." Xena: Warrior Princess, 2000)
Etymology:
From Medieval Latin, "cotton padding"
Also Known As: grandiloquence
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TOMORROW PEOPLE TAKE BBQ REGGAE ON THE ROAD FOR 10 DATE TOUR
Aotearoa’s favourite ‘BBQ reggae’ band Tomorrow People are hitting the road in celebration of their #1 album BBQ REGGAE.
The Wellington-based collective achieved the seemingly impossible earlier this year, knocking international superstar Ed Sheeran off the top of the charts, when their latest EP BBQ REGGAE debuted at #1 in the Official NZ Music Charts.
Now to mark the momentous milestone, Tomorrow People have announced a 10 date nationwide tour, which kicks off in Whangarei at Tiki Tavern on Friday, May 11 and ends in Gisborne at the Cossie Club on Saturday, June 6.
Presented by Pato Entertainment and Flava, the extensive tour takes in all corners of the North Island, including Ruakaka, Whakatane, Turangi and Rotorua, and is a way for Tomorrow People to say thanks to their loyal fanbase and the new fans they’ve won over with their unique style of sunshine reggae.
They will be adding South Island dates and further North Island dates later in the year. See below for current list of dates and venues.
Tomorrow People - Marcus Abraham, Ken Saupese, Hamo Dell, Avina Kelekolio, Duane Te Whetu, Dan Sugrue and Tana Tupai - are one of the country’s most-loved reggae bands, with a string of popular releases to their name, including ‘Souljah Feeling’, ‘Feel Alright’ and ‘Take It Away’.
They made headlines when their EP BBQ REGGAE toppled Ed Sheeran from the charts and drew praise for releasing single ‘Don’t Wanna Fight It’ in three languages - English, Te Reo and Samoan, as a mark of respect to the band members’ heritage and the diversity of their audience. The band performed a tri-lingual mash-up of the track that went viral on their Facebook page.
Tomorrow People have established themselves as one of New Zealand’s most popular live acts, performing this summer at some of the country’s biggest festivals, from One Love Festival to Homegrown. They’ve also taken their music to the world, with tours across Australia, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, and Samoa.
Don’t miss your chance to experience the magic of Tomorrow People live.
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UCT’s Media and Social Media unit communicates to internal and external audiences about university programmes, research and the activities of faculties and staff. Working closely with UCT’s executive management, the Media and Social Media unit release news and information through both traditional and social media.
Proactive media relations campaigns profile UCT in the local, regional, national, international, professional and specialist media.
Media Office functions include:
publicising events, successes and innovations
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updating students on important notices, research developments and campus events
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For media queries contact:
Elijah Moholola, Senior Manager: Social & Media Liaison, +27 (0)21 650 5674
Nombuso Shabalala, Head: Media Liaison, +27 (0)21 650 4190
The Media and Social Media unit regularly issues media releases on the work of the university and events that affect the university.
See the latest media releases.
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Elske Joubert, Newsroom Coordinator, +27 (0)21 650 7378
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TRX Moves of the Week: The Founder's Favorite Moves
TRX Moves of the Week
No one—and we mean no one—has been doing Suspension Training longer than TRX Founder Randy Hetrick. The former Navy SEAL invented the original Suspension Trainer prototype while deployed at a safehouse in Asia in the 90s, and has been championing the concept ever since. With decades of experience in training on-the-go, Hetrick knows all the tips and tricks for home fitness. The moves he’s digging right now? Exercises focused on combating work-from-home hunching and slouching.
Randy is taking over Moves of the Week with three exercises that will help you stand taller, prouder, and stronger. All you need is your Suspension Trainer and your TRX Strength Bands.
First up is the TRX Overhead Squat to Overhead Back Extension. Stand facing the anchor, with your straps adjusted to mid-length. Start with the overhead squat, and keep tension on the straps! As you come back up to standing, gently fall back while hinging at the waist to squat and hinge, all while squeezing your glutes at the top. Hetrick says this move will activate your body from the glutes and hamstrings all the way to your fingertips.
“I do this either as a dynamic warmup before my workout, or I'll do it during the workout and just slow it down, really activate and grind through it,” he said. “Do a set of 15 of these things and you'll be hating life and loving it at all at once.”
For the second move, a Loaded Squat, trade your Suspension Trainer for two TRX Strength Bands. Loop one end of each band around the arch of your foot, then cross the bands behind you. Loop the other end of the band around each hand between the thumb and forefinger. With your palms facing up toward the sky, squat then extend your arms up into an overhead press. “I'm feeling a pretty good load there, and as these run up my back, they actually help my squat,“ Hetrick explained.
Hetrick calls the third and final move a “Bandput” because it simulates a shotput throw a TRX Strength Band, integrating both extension and rotation.
Start with one end of the band wrapped twice around midfoot, then shoulder the other end of the band on the same side of your body. For example: if the band is anchored to your left foot, you’ll load the other end of the band on your left shoulder. Like the press you just completed, the “shouldered” end of the band will still be looped across your palm between your thumb and forefinger. (Think of it like a server carrying a tray at a restaurant.) Squat down to “load,” then use your hand to push the band diagonally up and away from your shoulder—throwing away the tray—to “explode.”
For variations on this move, Hetrick suggests playing with the speed or even leveling up to a heavier band.
All three of these moves use an extension to open up your posture and strengthen your back muscles. Whether you’re at home or hitting the road, pack your Suspension Trainer and your TRX Strength Bands in your TRX pouch to keep up with your fitness goals anytime, anywhere.
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Meet the Château that Inspired Versailles
By Kate Appleton
Nearly six million people traipse through the gardens and Hall of Mirrors at Versailles annually, braving lines and elbowing through crowds.
Let us tip you off to an alternative: before Versailles, there was Vaux le Vicomte, a lesser-known château that makes an easy day trip from Paris and offers a more blissful, intimate experience. It’s been cared for by the same family for five generations.
This summer is an especially fine time to head off the beaten path since Vaux le Vicomte is celebrating the 400th birthday of André Le Nôtre, who designed the formal gardens, pioneering the use of perspective and geometric patterns. (Keep an eye out for optical illusions and pools, fountains, and canals as you stroll the grounds.) He caught the attention of Louis XIV—the Sun King whose simple tastes called only for the best—and was hired to put his experience to work at Versailles.
Vaux le Vicomte is open to the public for guided tours—including July 14, Bastille Day—and hosts a special exhibition about Le Nôtre. Until October 5, a champagne bar in the garden adds to the festive mood, as do the more than 2,000 candles that illuminate the property at nightfall. They provide the mood lighting for dinners al fresco at Les Charmilles restaurant (advance reservations recommended).
A direct train departs every 30 minutes from Paris’s Gare de Lyon to Melun, and shuttle bus service recently debuted; get the details about planning a visit here.
Kate Appleton is a Senior Digital Editor at Travel + Leisure. Find her on Twitter @k_appleton.
Photo credit: © Arnaud Chicurel/Hemis/Corbis
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1 Sunday, 12/19/2021 Depart from SINGAPORE Singapore, Singapore
2 Monday, 12/20/2021 AT SEA
3 Tuesday, 12/21/2021 AT SEA
4 Wednesday, 12/22/2021 LAEM CHABANG (BANGKO Laem Chabang, Thailand
5 Thursday, 12/23/2021 KO KOOD
6 Friday, 12/24/2021 SIHANOUKVILLE (KAMPO Sihanoukville, Cambodia
7 Saturday, 12/25/2021 AT SEA
8 Sunday, 12/26/2021 HO CHI MINH CITY (SA Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
9 Monday, 12/27/2021 HO CHI MINH CITY (SA Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
10 Tuesday, 12/28/2021 AT SEA
11 Wednesday, 12/29/2021 DA NANG Da Nang, Vietnam
12 Thursday, 12/30/2021 AT SEA
13 Friday, 12/31/2021 HALONG BAY Halong Bay, Vietnam
14 Saturday, 01/01/2022 AT SEA
15 Sunday, 01/02/2022 HONG KONG Hong Kong, Hong Kong
16 Monday, 01/03/2022 HONG KONG Hong Kong, Hong Kong
17 Tuesday, 01/04/2022 XIAMEN Xiamen, China
18 Wednesday, 01/05/2022 AT SEA
19 Thursday, 01/06/2022 HUNDRED ISLANDS
20 Friday, 01/07/2022 MANILA Manila, Luzon Island, Philippines
21 Saturday, 01/08/2022 MANILA Manila, Luzon Island, Philippines
22 Sunday, 01/09/2022 CORON
23 Monday, 01/10/2022 PUERTO PRINCESA
25 Wednesday, 01/12/2022 KOTA KINABALU Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
27 Friday, 01/14/2022 AT SEA
28 Saturday, 01/15/2022 SINGAPORE Singapore, Singapore
29 Sunday, 01/16/2022 Arrive at SINGAPORE Singapore, Singapore
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The Trevelyan brothers and the First World War
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The Trevelyan brothers, Robert, Charles and George, who all attended Trinity, provide a microcosm in one family of the range of attitudes towards the First World War. Trinity archivist Rebecca Hughes explores the brothers’ experience of and attitudes to war.
40 years of women at Trinity: your memories and ideas wanted!
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Alumni, Fellows, staff and students are invited to contribute their experiences, memories and thoughts about studying, living and working at Trinity.
‘Doing internships definitely made a difference in getting a job’
Access and Outreach, Students, Tradition and Innovation
Less than a year after she graduated, Trinity alumna Richelle George has begun her first job in international development, based in Cyprus, with Acasus, a consultancy that works with governments to improve health and education systems.
And the Trinity Bradfield Prize goes to…
Fellows, Students, Tradition and Innovation
Three Cambridge PhD students have received the Trinity Bradfield Prize in a competition designed to foster researcher-entrepreneurs which attracted more than 80 entries.
Trinity students win national programming contest
Teams of Trinity Computer Science and Maths students scooped first, second and third place in the UK/IE Programming Contest out of over 150 teams from across the UK and Ireland.
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Here's how Trump and his top advisers who may have been exposed to coronavirus are handling it
Savannah Behrmann Nicholas Wu
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and some of his closest advisers and top allies in Congress have come into contact with people who have tested positive for coronavirus.
Some are heeding the advice of public health experts and isolating themselves until they have passed the period where they could be contagious to avoid spreading the highly contagious virus. Others, including Trump, continued to interact, mingle and even shake hands, as he did in the Rose Garden on Friday while declaring a national emergency to help direct money and resources for the coronavirus pandemic.
Among those to whom he offered a hand? Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has been advising Americans that one of the first lines of defense against the spread is to stop shaking hands.
Dr. Richard Carmona, who was Surgeon General in the George W. Bush administration, said President Trump’s staff should have advised him not to shake hands.
“Setting the example would be very important,” said Carmona, now a distinguished professor at the University of Arizona and chief of innovation at the wellness resort Canyon Ranch. “It was a missed opportunity to shape the patterns of behavior we’re hoping to shape.”
Trump on Saturday appeared to change his tune on handshaking. Asked why he was still shaking hands with people, Trump said, "it becomes a habit and it's hard to get out of that habit," but "possibly that something that comes out of this, maybe people shouldn't be shaking hands in the long term."
Trump also announced he had taken a coronavirus test, and White House physician Sean P. Conley said in a memorandum released later Saturday the test came back negative.
Even if Trump tested negative, he should still “take the precautions we’re asking every other American to take,” Carmona said.
Some lawmakers have gone into self-quarantine out of an "abundance of caution" while others have dismissed their potential exposure. So far, no official has announced that they are positive for COVID-19.
These are the officials who have self-quarantined or interacted with people who have been diagnosed:
President Trump
On Saturday, Trump said he had been tested for the coronavirus and the White House started taking the temperature of all people in contact with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence following Trump's recent exposure to two Brazilian officials who later tested positive for the virus.
Trump said his temperature was "totally normal," and Conley said in a statement later Saturday "the test is negative" and Trump remained "symptom-free" one week after coming into contact with the Brazillian officials.
A senior adviser to Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for the novel coronavirus, just five days after he was among a group of officials who met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Fabio Wajngarten, Bolsonaro's communications secretary, tested positive and that result has been "confirmed by a retest," Bolsonaro's office said in a statement Thursday. Wajngarten posted a picture of himself standing next to Trump.
On Friday, Bolsonaro announced he tested negative for the virus. Also on Friday, Brazil announced that its charge d'affairs Nestor Forster, who was also in attendance for the Mar-a-Lago meeting, also tested positive for COVID-19.
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RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel awaits coronavirus test results and is self-quarantining after experiencing "a fever and flu-like symptoms," said RNC communications director Michael Ahrens in a statement released Saturday.
Ahrens said flu and strep tests had been administered to her and both came back negative.
McDaniel was present for several events over the past week with top Republican and government officials. An RNC official told USA TODAY she went to a Mar-a-Lago event with Trump on March 6, attended a lunch event with Pence on March 7, and went to an event in Orlando with Trump on March 9 before flying back to Washington, D.C., on Air Force One. She also attended Republican senators' lunch meeting on March 10.
A senior cabinet member in Australia's government who said Friday he has tested positive for coronavirus was pictured last week standing next to Attorney General William Barr and other White House officials.
Peter Dutton, who is Australia's minister for home affairs, released a statement saying he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to the hospital, where he is in isolation.
Dutton was in Washington for meetings connected to the so-called Five Eyes security pact, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and the United States.
The Justice Department said Friday that Barr is "feeling great and not showing any symptoms." He is, however, staying at home Friday.
"The CDC is not recommending he be tested at this point," the Justice Department said.
More:Australian politician who met Ivanka Trump, Attorney General William Barr infected with coronavirus
Ivanka Trump, daughter of and adviser to the president, was also pictured standing next to Dutton.
The White House said Friday afternoon that Ivanka Trump has no symptoms.
“The White House is aware that Mr. Dutton tested positive for COVID-19," administration press aide Judd Deere said in a statement provided to USA TODAY. "He was asymptomatic during the interaction. Exposures from the case were assessed and the White House Medical Unit confirmed, in accordance with CDC guidance, that Ivanka is exhibiting no symptoms and does not need to self-quarantine. She worked from home today out of an abundance of caution until guidance was given.”
More:Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency. What does that mean?
Asked Friday in an MSNBC television interview whether Ivanka Trump's contact with Dutton meant that the president should be tested for the virus, Anthony Fauci, the country's top expert on infectious disease, said: "I leave that to the president."
She also was at Mar-a-Lago with the Brazil delegation.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway also appeared in a a photo that was shared of Dutton with Ivanka Trump and Barr on March 6.
She tweeted Friday, "White House Medical Unit (WHMU) informed me earlier that Mr. Dutton was asymptomatic during the interaction. Exposures from the case were assessed and the WHMU confirmed, in accordance with CDC guidance, that I exhibited no symptoms & need not self-quarantine."
Rep. Mark Meadows
The North Carolina Republican's spokesman said Monday night that Meadows is also self-isolating after being advised this past weekend that he may have come in contact with an individual at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The statement also includes that Meadows was tested for coronavirus “out of an abundance of caution,” despite "experiencing zero symptoms."
However, he'll remain home "until the 14 day period expires this Wednesday."
Trump announced last week that Meadows would be his new chief of staff.
More:Sen. Ted Cruz, Reps. Paul Gosar, Doug Collins are self-quarantining after interacting with person who tested positive for coronavirus
Sen. Lindsey Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Thursday that he will self-quarantine after a trip to Trump's Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, where Brazilian President Bolsonaro was present.
Graham's office put out a statement, saying, "Senator Graham has decided to self-quarantine awaiting the results of a coronavirus test," reiterating it was out of an "abundance of caution."
"This is a precautionary measure. He will continue to work from home," the statement concluded. It did not state whether Graham was symptomatic.
Rep. Matt Gaetz
The Florida Republican announced he was self-quarantining Monday after he was informed that he "came into contact with a Conservative Political Action Conference attendee who has tested positive for the virus."
Gaetz "had expected COVID-19 to impact Congress, given the elevated frequency of travel and human contact, and demonstrated his concern last week on the House Floor," the statement continued, referring to when he wore a gas mask on the House floor while the chamber voted on a coronavirus funding bill.
More:Tuesday primaries still happening despite coronavirus concerns that shut down Louisiana’s
Hours before Gaetz announced he was self-quarantining, he was spotted getting on Air Force One with Trump for a flight up the East Coast.
Sen. Rick Scott
The Florida Republican announced Thursday that he would be self-quarantining after potentially coming into contact in Miami with a member of the Brazilian president's delegation, who later tested positive for coronavirus.
Scott said he will self-quarantine "in an abundance of caution" after he had contact with Wajngarten. In a statement, Scott said the Brazilian Embassy alerted his office after Wajngarten tested positive – a result that came days after Scott met with Bolsonaro.
"While I do not believe I interacted with the infected person, that individual was in the same room as me," Scott's said. The embassy said Wajngarten had no symptoms leading up to the meeting or on that day.
Scott added he is feeling healthy and is not having symptoms at this time.
Rep. Doug Collins
The Georgia Republican announced Monday that he will self-quarantine due to contact with the person who tested positive at CPAC.
"This afternoon, I was notified by CPAC that they discovered a photo of myself and the patient who has tested positive for #COVID19," Collins tweeted. "While I am not experiencing any symptoms, I have decided to self-quarantine out of an abundance of caution."
Days before Collins announced he was voluntarily in self-quarantine, he was seen meeting with Trump at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, shaking the president's hands on the tarmac before the visit.
More:Biden, Sanders take podium in presidential-style addresses to lay out coronavirus plans
Sen. Ted Cruz
The Texas Republican said in a statement Sunday that he shook hands with the CPAC individual, and had a brief conversation.
"I am not experiencing any symptoms and I feel fine and healthy," Cruz said, explaining that the interaction lasted "less than a minute" and medical professionals he's consulted have told him the "odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low."
"Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, and because of how frequently I interact with my constituents as a part of my job and to give everyone peace of mind, I have decided to remain at my home in Texas this week, until a full 14 days have passed since the CPAC interaction," he continued.
Rep. Paul Gosar
Gosar, an Arizona Republican, said Sunday he was with the CPAC "individual for an extended period of time, and we shook hands several times." He said while he was not experiencing any symptoms, he along with three senior members of his office staff would be self-quarantining themselves.
Gosar said he would also close his Washington office "out of an abundance of caution."
He later tweeted: "Been thinking about life and mortality today. I'd rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it doesn't matter. But it kinda does."
More:Rep. Paul Gosar, symptom-free for coronavirus, says he'd rather 'die gloriously in battle'
Contributing: Jayne O'Donnell
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The Power of Drama
Story from Sunsari under Peacebuilding
Ayesha Khatun, currently studying in Grade 10, comes from a Muslim family in Sunsari. The legal age of marriage is 20 for both men and women in Nepal, but despite this law girls are still married off early. Child marriage in Ayesha's village (a Muslim community) is not a new thing.
Bamboo bonanza
Story from Sunsari under Integral Development
The Church of God, Madhumalla, is a small church of just 60 members. To do good work, we don't always need a big number and lots of educated people or even an educated leader in the church.
Changing the church, changing the community
Rev Gajendra Khan Thakuri is Pastor of Budhabare Baptist Church in Letang village, Morang District. There are more than 150 believers in his church. He was looking for the best way to link with and enter into the community, and he said he had struggled for quite a long time to find...
Fish and fruit and feathered friends
Story from Sunsari under Sustainable Livelihoods
The Samaweshi group in Letang built a fire preparedness pond in the community, and have now stocked it with fish. As well as retaining water, the pond is also generating income for the group. Letang is very vulnerable to fire hazards. There was no permanent way to collect...
Model Child Club
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Shirjanshil Child Club was established in 2008 in Pachkanya Village. It has 27 active members, a mix of Dalits (low caste), ethnic groups and other castes.
Cross Border Crime Reduced
Chimadi, Amahibela and Amarduwa are remote village areas situated in the southern part of Sunsari district. There is poor access to transport or amenities, like electricity or communication. People living here are generally very poor and from marginalised groups like Dalits (low caste), Janajatis and Madhesis (enthic minorities) and their lives are very difficult.
Still At School
Nineteen, unmarried, and still at school! Rekha turns a deaf ear to the teasing. When she completes her schooling later this year, she will be the first girl in her village to do so. Rekha nearly missed out on school altogether. Born to a poor family in Sunsari, one of the plainland districts in Nepal, Rekha worked hard to allow her five younger sisters to get an education.
Hearing from the heart!
San Bahadur is quite popular in school. Besides being good with books, he also has a passion for cricket. His friends cheer for him when he is on the cricket field with a bat. San Bahadur enjoys the attention, as any 18 year old would.
The Chicken or the Egg?
She took my hand in her thin, wrinkled one, pointing to my silver rings. Before we began our discussion with this small group of women, she made it clear that she expected a roof, a toilet, and possibly some cash. Unfortunately, this is not what we came bearing!
So That All Can See God's Love
Khagendra Thapa pastors a congregation of about 70 believers in a remote village in North Morang, Nepal. After participating in the integral mission workshop organised by UMN in 2008, he considered how he could demonstrate God's love for the poor in practical ways.
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György Kurtág was born on 19 February 1926 at Lugos (Lugoj in Romanian) in the Bánát region of Romania. He has been a Hungarian citizen since 1948; since 2002 he holds Hungarian-French dual citizenship. Kurtág started playing the piano at the age of 5 with Klára Vojkicza-Peia. Music-making with his mother was in subsequent years an important source of inspiration: they played arrangements for piano duet of symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven as well as overtures by Mozart.
The first genuine pedagogue in his life was the piano teacher Magda Kardos at Temesvár/Timişoara who exerted a life-long influence on Kurtág, even in the field of composition. His first teacher of composition (harmony and counterpoint) was Max Eisikovits, also at Temesvár/Timişoara.In September 1945, Kurtág sat for an entrance examination at the Budapest Academy of Music - it was on that occasion that he made the acquaintance of György Ligeti who was to remain his friend until the latter's death in 2006.Kurtág began his studies at the Budapest Academy of Music in 1946. His professors included Pál Kadosa (piano), Leó Weiner (chamber music), Sándor Veress and subsequently Ferenc Farkas (composition); he also received important impulses from Pál Járdányi. Kurtág obtained his degree in piano and chamber music in 1951, and in composition in 1955.
In 1947, Kurtág married Márta Kinsker who has since been of decisive significance in every field of life: as wife, as the mother of their son, György Kurtág Jr (born in 1954), as pianist and also as the first listener and critic of his compositions in gestation.
In 1957/1958, Kurtág attended the courses of Messiaen and Milhaud in Paris. It was, however, Marianne Stein who made the greatest impact. Not only did she help him find the way out of the crisis that had paralysed his work as a composer for several years - she also opened a new chapter in his career ("Marianne halved my life"); she showed him a new direction. Hence the dedication of String Quartet Op. 1 and of the Kafka Fragments, Op. 24 to Marianne Stein. During the course of the months in Paris, Kurtág attended concerts of the Domaine musical under the baton of its founder, Pierre Boulez and heard several of Boulez' compositions - an experience which was to prove of significance for his thinking. The time in Paris as well as the few days in Cologne on his way back to Budapest when he met Ligeti again and heard his electronic composition Artikulation; also the acquaintance with Stockhausen and listening to his Gruppen for three orchestras were further decisive influences which played an important role when he was working on the String Quartet Op. 1.
Between 1960 and 1968, Kurtág acted as répétiteur for soloists of the National Concert Bureau; in 1967, he was invited to teach at the Academy of Music. Initially, he was assistant to Pál Kadosa in piano, later on he taught chamber music. He retired in 1986 but continued to give classes regularly until 1993. Since then, right up to the present day, he holds courses in chamber music in many European countries as well as in the United States. He and his wife also appear in recitals where they play from the piano series Játékok [Games] alternating with Kurtág's Bach transcriptions.
In 1971, Kurtág spent a year in West Berlin on a DAAD scholarship. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1973 (in 1996, he was decorated with the prize a second time). In 1981, the Ensemble Intercontemporain played the world premiere in Paris of Messages of the Late Miss R.V.Troussova, Op. 17 for soprano and chamber ensemble (soloist: Adrienne Csengery, conductor: Sylvain Cambreling). It was that event which marked Kurtág's international breakthrough. In 1993, at the invitation of the Wissenschaftskolleg, he moved to Berlin for two years as composer-in-residence of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1995/1996 he was a guest of the Konzerthaus in Vienna in the same capacity. There followed Amsterdam (1996-1998), Berlin again (1998-1999) and Paris (1999-2001). Kurtág and his wife have been living at St André de Cubzac near Bordeaux since 2001.
György Kurtág has been decorated with many awards and prizes. They include the Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 1998 and the Grawemeyer Award - one of the world's most prestigious music prizes - for ...concertante..., Op. 42 in 2006.
Selection of works
Kurtág: Games VII
Kurtág: Games for piano duet and two pianos VIII
Kurtág: Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach
Kurtág: Games III
Kurtág: Seven Songs for soprano and cimbalom
Chamber Music with Voice
Kurtág: String Quartet No.1
Kurtág: The Small Snag
Mixed Chamber Trio
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MELEE GALA
RESPECTFUL GYM POLICY
CONTACT UBC
unitedboxing@shaw.ca
1.0 Policy
1.1 United Boxing Club (UBC) wants to ensure that all members, volunteers, employees, coaches, officials, instructors and all others who interact with UBC, are treated with respect and dignity. All UBC members are entitled to be treated with respect and free from all forms of Inappropriate Behaviour, Disrespectful Behaviour, Violence and Harassment, including Sexual Harassment and Bullying. All such conduct is prohibited by this Policy and any UBC member or other individual (regardless of UBC membership) who is held to be in breach of this Policy will be subject to consequence, up to and including termination of membership and/or prohibition from UBC premises.
1.2 Any person who experiences or witnesses behaviour in violation of this Policy shall address it promptly by contacting Gillian Reid-McLean, Operations Manager, at grmclean@mymts.net or 204-918-3330. More serious forms of Inappropriate Behaviour (e.g. Sexual Harassment, serious Harassment or Violence) should be reported immediately to the President of UBC, Ryan Savage, by email at rsavage@tmlawyers.com.
1.3 All Board of Directors, employees, coaches, instructors, officials and contractors (UBC Staff) must comply with this Policy in the course of their dealings with UBC. UBC Staff are also required to report any observations and/or complaints relating to conduct in violation of this Policy promptly to the UBC Operations Manager at grmclean@mymts.net or 204-918-3330. Where appropriate, UBC Staff should take immediate action to address any conduct in violation of this Policy.
1.4 UBC adheres to Respect in Sport protocols and so does not permit its competitive team coaches to have intimate relationships with any athlete they coach in competition.
1.5 This Policy does not limit UBC staff’s rights to manage, oversee, direct or instruct. Performance reviews, work assignment, evaluation and disciplinary measures taken by UBC and its Board of Directors for any valid reason do not constitute a violation of this Policy.
2. 0 Application and Complaint Process
2.1 This policy applies to the UBC environment itself, including UBC's premises, but also UBC travel, competitions, gatherings, social media etc.
2.2 For less severe forms of Inappropriate Behaviour (e.g. disrespect), individuals should first consider whether they can resolve the matter informally (e.g. speaking to the other person or seeking the advice/support from UBC or other post-incident supports). If individuals are not comfortable addressing the situation informally, the matter should be promptly reported to the Operations Manager or, for more serious Inappropriate Behaviour, to the UBC President at the contact information noted in s. 1.2 above.
2.3 This policy is not intended to discourage or prevent any person from exercising any legal right, including filing a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, reporting unsafe workplace conditions through Workplace Safety and Health, contacting the police, or any other appropriate authorities.
2.4 The UBC Board of Directors shall be exclusively responsible for the handling of all complaints filed under this Policy. The UBC Board of Directors will attempt to resolve the matters informally and, if that is not possible, determine whether a formal investigation is required.
2.5 Generally, investigations are concluded within thirty (30) business days of receiving a complaint. Every effort will be made to complete an investigation within that time; however, there may be extenuating circumstances. If there are delays, the complainant and respondent will be advised of the cause of delay. During an investigation, regular timeline updates (e.g. every ten (10) business days) will be provided to the complainant and respondent to ensure communication is maintained throughout the investigation process.
2.6 Following investigation, the UBC Board of Directors will render any decisions necessary and take any action necessary to ensure compliance with this Policy.
2.7 UBC Staff who receive a complaint or are involved in an investigation under this Policy must not disclose the name of a complainant, alleged respondent or the circumstances related to the issue to any person except where the disclosure is necessary to investigate, take corrective action or as is required by law.
2.8 Reprisal is not permitted against UBC staff, parents and/or athletes exercising their rights in good faith under this Policy. Any act of reprisal will be cause for disciplinary action up to and including termination of duties/employment/membership. Reprisal can include, but is not limited to, an actual or threatened harmful act, penalizing someone for making a complaint, withholding a benefit for making a complaint or attempting to isolate or exclude a UBC staff member, parent and/or athlete from activities.
2.9 If it is determined that a false complaint was deliberately made for frivolous or vindictive reasons, UBC may take disciplinary action against the complainant up to and including termination of position/employment/membership. This does not apply to complaints made in good faith that are unproven or unsubstantiated.
3.1 The following definitions describe a spectrum of behaviours that vary in severity. Behaviour can be deemed inappropriate and in breach of this Policy even if not intended to be.
Respectful Behaviour
Respectful Behaviour values diversity, inclusion, dignity, courteous conduct, mutual respect, fairness, equality, and promotes positive communication and collaborative working relationships.
Inappropriate Behaviour is an overarching term used to describe disrespectful behaviour, sexual harassment, harassment, bullying and/or violence.
Disrespectful Behaviour
Disrespectful Behaviour is disruptive to positive communication, courteous conduct and collaborative working relationships (e.g. gossip, interruptions, etc.). Behaviour may also be disrespectful if it does not value diversity, inclusion, dignity, fairness and equality. More objectionable and severe forms of disrespectful behaviour are considered harassment and/or bullying.
Harassment/Bullying
This Policy uses The Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation definition, which defines two (2) forms of harassment:
1. Objectionable conduct that creates a risk to the health of UBC staff, parents and/or athletes. Conduct is objectionable if it is based on race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender-determined characteristics, marital status, family status, source of income, political belief, political association, political activity, disability, physical size or weight, age, nationality, ancestry or place of origin; and/or
2. Bullying behaviour. This behaviour includes severe conduct that adversely affects a person’s psychological or physical well-being. Conduct is considered severe if it is:
repeated humiliation or intimidation that adversely affects a person’s psychological or physical well-being; or
a single instance so serious that is has a lasting, harmful effect on a person.
Harassment may be written, verbal, physical, online or electronic, a gesture or display, or any combination of these. It may happen only once, but often happens repeatedly.
Sexual Harassment is based on sex, gender (how one identifies, including gender identity or expression or gender-determined characteristics) or sexual orientation. Sexual Harassment can be sexual in nature, but can also include any form of harassment based on sex, gender or sexual orientation.
Sexual Harassment can also refer to behaviour that creates or permits a sexualized or sexually charged, or negative/poisoned environment/atmosphere.
Sexual Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
abusive remarks or behaviours based on sex, gender or sexual orientation;
objectionable and unwelcome sexual solicitations or advances;
a reprisal, retaliation or threat of retaliation for rejecting a sexual solicitation or advance; or
a reprisal or threat of reprisal for filing a sexual harassment complaint.
Sexual harassment may be written, verbal, physical, online or electronic, a gesture or display, or any combination of these.
Violence refers to the attempted or actual exercise of physical force against a person, or any threatening statement or behaviour that gives a person reasonable cause to believe that physical force will be used against the person.
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Analyzing Oppression
Ann E. Cudd
Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This book presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy ... More
This book presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? The book argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. The book argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight. The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility. While in the book's view oppression is grounded in material exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained without corresponding psychological forces. The book examines the direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain oppression. It discusses strategies that groups have used to resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral responsibility to resist in some way. The concluding chapter proposes a concept of freedom that would be possible for humans in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve freedom for all others.Less
This book presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? The book argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. The book argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight. The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility. While in the book's view oppression is grounded in material exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained without corresponding psychological forces. The book examines the direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain oppression. It discusses strategies that groups have used to resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral responsibility to resist in some way. The concluding chapter proposes a concept of freedom that would be possible for humans in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve freedom for all others.
Keywords: social oppression, natural hierarchy, material exploitation, physical deprivation, psychological forces
Progress for the Poor
Lane Kenworthy
One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on ... More
One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s. The book addresses a set of questions at the heart of political economy and public policy: How much does economic growth help the poor? When and why does growth fail to trickle down? How can social policy help? Can a country have a sizeable low-wage sector yet few poor households? Are universal programs better than targeted ones? What role can public services play in antipoverty efforts? What is the best tax mix? Is more social spending better for the poor? If we commit to improvement in the absolute living standards of the least well-off, must we sacrifice other desirable outcomes?Less
One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s. The book addresses a set of questions at the heart of political economy and public policy: How much does economic growth help the poor? When and why does growth fail to trickle down? How can social policy help? Can a country have a sizeable low-wage sector yet few poor households? Are universal programs better than targeted ones? What role can public services play in antipoverty efforts? What is the best tax mix? Is more social spending better for the poor? If we commit to improvement in the absolute living standards of the least well-off, must we sacrifice other desirable outcomes?
Keywords: poverty, deprivation, living standards, well-being, social policy, antipoverty policy, redistribution, government transfers, public services, economic growth, universal, targeting, taxes, tradeoff
From a Theory of Relative Economic Deprivation Towards a Theory of Relative Political Deprivation
Walker Connor
in Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order
Attempts to correct a common tendency to exaggerate the impact of economic factors upon ethno‐national conflict, which stems from a theory of ‘relative economic deprivation’ holding that ... More
Attempts to correct a common tendency to exaggerate the impact of economic factors upon ethno‐national conflict, which stems from a theory of ‘relative economic deprivation’ holding that ethno‐nationalism stems from essentially economic impulse. To be sure, relative economic deprivation exists wherever ethno‐nationalist conflict is found, but so does oxygen, and mere contiguity does not imply causation. The historical evidence suggests that while relative economic deprivation can be a powerful contributory factor, the sense of relative political deprivation offers a more satisfactory explanation.Less
Attempts to correct a common tendency to exaggerate the impact of economic factors upon ethno‐national conflict, which stems from a theory of ‘relative economic deprivation’ holding that ethno‐nationalism stems from essentially economic impulse. To be sure, relative economic deprivation exists wherever ethno‐nationalist conflict is found, but so does oxygen, and mere contiguity does not imply causation. The historical evidence suggests that while relative economic deprivation can be a powerful contributory factor, the sense of relative political deprivation offers a more satisfactory explanation.
Keywords: ethno‐nationalism, nationalism, relative economic deprivation, relative political deprivation
Elizabeth R. Napier
in The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form
Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts about the Gothic. It argues that the paradox of the Gothic is that the genre, despite its close connection to sentimental narrative, actually prohibits ... More
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts about the Gothic. It argues that the paradox of the Gothic is that the genre, despite its close connection to sentimental narrative, actually prohibits sentimental and dynamic judgements on the part of its readers: by exhibiting such extreme emotion in others, it denies that opportunity to its audience. The Gothic seems to gain its most characteristic effects through a complex procedure of deprivation and destruction; tantalizing its audience with emotions that it cannot fully feel, it manufactures an atmosphere approaching moral eroticism.Less
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts about the Gothic. It argues that the paradox of the Gothic is that the genre, despite its close connection to sentimental narrative, actually prohibits sentimental and dynamic judgements on the part of its readers: by exhibiting such extreme emotion in others, it denies that opportunity to its audience. The Gothic seems to gain its most characteristic effects through a complex procedure of deprivation and destruction; tantalizing its audience with emotions that it cannot fully feel, it manufactures an atmosphere approaching moral eroticism.
Keywords: Gothic novels, Gothic fiction, deprivation, destruction, sentimental narrative
Determinism, Blameworthiness, and Deprivation
Martha Klein
Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This book casts new light on the classic dispute between ‘compatibilists’ and ‘incompatibilists’ about determinism and moral responsibility. The book argues that the traditional account of the ... More
This book casts new light on the classic dispute between ‘compatibilists’ and ‘incompatibilists’ about determinism and moral responsibility. The book argues that the traditional account of the dispute, turning as it does on the notion of the agent's ‘ability to have acted otherwise’, misrepresents the real disagreement, which arises from the compatibilists' conviction that it is sufficient for blameworthiness that an agent's wrongdoing was the result of a morally reprehensible frame of mind, and the incompatibilists' insistence that wrongdoers cannot be morally responsible for their actions if they are not responsible for their motivating desires and beliefs. The incompatibilist position seems compelling when, for instance, we consider wrongdoers whose desires and attitudes can be traced to early emotional deprivation. The book argues that our response to these and other ‘problem cases’ commits us to an incompatibilist condition for blameworthiness that is actually unfulfillable. In the book's view, however, some reflections on emotional deprivation should also encourage acceptance of a compatibilist condition that will satisfy our desire to be just more fully than the usual proposals emanating from either side of the debate.Less
This book casts new light on the classic dispute between ‘compatibilists’ and ‘incompatibilists’ about determinism and moral responsibility. The book argues that the traditional account of the dispute, turning as it does on the notion of the agent's ‘ability to have acted otherwise’, misrepresents the real disagreement, which arises from the compatibilists' conviction that it is sufficient for blameworthiness that an agent's wrongdoing was the result of a morally reprehensible frame of mind, and the incompatibilists' insistence that wrongdoers cannot be morally responsible for their actions if they are not responsible for their motivating desires and beliefs. The incompatibilist position seems compelling when, for instance, we consider wrongdoers whose desires and attitudes can be traced to early emotional deprivation. The book argues that our response to these and other ‘problem cases’ commits us to an incompatibilist condition for blameworthiness that is actually unfulfillable. In the book's view, however, some reflections on emotional deprivation should also encourage acceptance of a compatibilist condition that will satisfy our desire to be just more fully than the usual proposals emanating from either side of the debate.
Keywords: determinism, blameworthiness, deprivation, compatibilist, incompatibilist, moral responsibility, wrongdoing
Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression
in Analyzing Oppression
This chapter is concerned with explaining how our cognitive psychology equips us for oppression, that is, what psychological mechanisms we have that allow and motivate us to oppress or suffer ... More
This chapter is concerned with explaining how our cognitive psychology equips us for oppression, that is, what psychological mechanisms we have that allow and motivate us to oppress or suffer oppression. It addresses the question: what psychological mechanisms account for our tendency to form social groups and to invidiously discriminate among those groups? It argues that there are two main types of material forces of oppression — violence and economic deprivation — and that oppression cannot survive without being enforced by at least one of these material ways of harming persons. Violence is separated from economic deprivation to illustrate how different cases of oppression involve different kinds of reinforcements and argue that they will require different strategies of resistance.Less
This chapter is concerned with explaining how our cognitive psychology equips us for oppression, that is, what psychological mechanisms we have that allow and motivate us to oppress or suffer oppression. It addresses the question: what psychological mechanisms account for our tendency to form social groups and to invidiously discriminate among those groups? It argues that there are two main types of material forces of oppression — violence and economic deprivation — and that oppression cannot survive without being enforced by at least one of these material ways of harming persons. Violence is separated from economic deprivation to illustrate how different cases of oppression involve different kinds of reinforcements and argue that they will require different strategies of resistance.
Keywords: cognitive psychology, social groups, violence, economic deprivation, harm
Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina
Edmund L. Drago
Fordham University Press
10.5422/fso/9780823229376.001.0001
This book tells a story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state in the United States (the state where the Civil War erupted). Drawing on a rich array of sources, many ... More
This book tells a story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state in the United States (the state where the Civil War erupted). Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, the book shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic results. Thousands of fathers and brothers died in battle; many returned home with grave physical and psychological wounds. Widows and orphans often had to fend for themselves. From the first volley at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to the end of Reconstruction, the book explores the extraordinary impact of war and defeat on the South Carolina home front. It covers a broad spectrum, from the effect of “boy soldiers” on the ideals of childhood and child rearing to changes in education, marriage customs, and community as well as family life. The book surveys the children's literature of the era and explores the changing dimensions of Confederate patriarchal society. By studying the implications of the War and its legacy in cultural memory, it unveils the conflicting perspectives of South Carolina children, white and black, during modern times.Less
Confederate Phoenix : Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina
This book tells a story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state in the United States (the state where the Civil War erupted). Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, the book shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic results. Thousands of fathers and brothers died in battle; many returned home with grave physical and psychological wounds. Widows and orphans often had to fend for themselves. From the first volley at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to the end of Reconstruction, the book explores the extraordinary impact of war and defeat on the South Carolina home front. It covers a broad spectrum, from the effect of “boy soldiers” on the ideals of childhood and child rearing to changes in education, marriage customs, and community as well as family life. The book surveys the children's literature of the era and explores the changing dimensions of Confederate patriarchal society. By studying the implications of the War and its legacy in cultural memory, it unveils the conflicting perspectives of South Carolina children, white and black, during modern times.
Keywords: white children, South Carolina, Civil War, disease, death, deprivation, physical wounds, psychological wounds, widows, orphans
The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Colin Dayan
Literature, Criticism/Theory
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout ... More
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, this book tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? The book looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, the book considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and it explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, the book also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, the book illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.Less
The Law Is a White Dog : How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, this book tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? The book looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, the book considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and it explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, the book also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, the book illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.
Keywords: deprivation, banishment, slavery, punishment, torture, felons, slaves, civil death, lawful repression, American prison system
Engendering Education: Prospects For a Rights‐Based Approach To Female Education Deprivation In India
Ramya Subrahmanian
in Gender Justice, Development, and Rights
This chapter examines two challenges to promoting the right of education in India: economic and education policies, and the gender perspective used to justify a focus on women’s education. The ... More
This chapter examines two challenges to promoting the right of education in India: economic and education policies, and the gender perspective used to justify a focus on women’s education. The capabilities framework is used to distinguish rights-based approaches to social development from the more conventional policy debates in the education sector. The application of the capabilities approach to arguments for the right to education is discussed.Less
This chapter examines two challenges to promoting the right of education in India: economic and education policies, and the gender perspective used to justify a focus on women’s education. The capabilities framework is used to distinguish rights-based approaches to social development from the more conventional policy debates in the education sector. The application of the capabilities approach to arguments for the right to education is discussed.
Keywords: women’s education, India, education policy, right to education, capabilities approach, neo-liberalism, literacy, female education deprivation
Theories and Models of Turnout
Harold D. Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne C. Stewart, and Paul Whiteley
in Political Choice in Britain
Uses confirmatory factor analysis to locate electoral participation in a broader matrix of political activities, and presents alternative theoretical models that might be used to explain the decline ... More
Uses confirmatory factor analysis to locate electoral participation in a broader matrix of political activities, and presents alternative theoretical models that might be used to explain the decline in electoral turnout in Britain and other mature democracies. The relative deprivation or equity-fairness model stresses the gap between what an individual expects and what s/he gets out of life. The civic voluntarism model focuses on the resources that individuals bring to bear on the decision to vote or not and the mobilization efforts that are made by other actors. The social capital model emphasizes social trust and the individual’s involvement with social organizations. The cognitive mobilization model highlights the role of political interest, political knowledge, and media usage. Finally, the general incentives model supplements a broadly defined Downsian-style cost-benefit analysis with variables that take account of a variety of other incentives, such as ‘doing one’s democratic duty’.Less
Harold D. ClarkeDavid SandersMarianne C. StewartPaul Whiteley
Uses confirmatory factor analysis to locate electoral participation in a broader matrix of political activities, and presents alternative theoretical models that might be used to explain the decline in electoral turnout in Britain and other mature democracies. The relative deprivation or equity-fairness model stresses the gap between what an individual expects and what s/he gets out of life. The civic voluntarism model focuses on the resources that individuals bring to bear on the decision to vote or not and the mobilization efforts that are made by other actors. The social capital model emphasizes social trust and the individual’s involvement with social organizations. The cognitive mobilization model highlights the role of political interest, political knowledge, and media usage. Finally, the general incentives model supplements a broadly defined Downsian-style cost-benefit analysis with variables that take account of a variety of other incentives, such as ‘doing one’s democratic duty’.
Keywords: civic voluntarism, cognitive mobilization, general incentives, relative deprivation, social capital, turnout
Effects of visual deprivation
Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers
in Seeing in Depth: Volume 1: Basic Mechanics/ Volume 2: Depth Perception 2-Volume Set
Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and ... More
This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and amblyopia and stereopsis.Less
Ian P. HowardBrian J. Rogers
This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and amblyopia and stereopsis.
Keywords: eyes, sight deprivation, dark rearing, monocular deprivation, amblyopia, stereopsis, visual sytem
Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Isolation: An Assessment of the Current State of Social Exclusion Theory
Duncan Gallie
in Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union
This chapter analyses the social exclusion theory, which associates unemployment with poverty and social isolation. Studies showed support for a vicious cycle linking unemployment and poverty. ... More
This chapter analyses the social exclusion theory, which associates unemployment with poverty and social isolation. Studies showed support for a vicious cycle linking unemployment and poverty. Unemployment led to higher poverty risks; poverty was a significant obstacle to employment. However, no such links were observed for social isolation. Unemployment caused little change in people’s social lives; no evidence showed social isolation as a significant barrier to employment.Less
This chapter analyses the social exclusion theory, which associates unemployment with poverty and social isolation. Studies showed support for a vicious cycle linking unemployment and poverty. Unemployment led to higher poverty risks; poverty was a significant obstacle to employment. However, no such links were observed for social isolation. Unemployment caused little change in people’s social lives; no evidence showed social isolation as a significant barrier to employment.
Keywords: social exclusion theory, unemployment, poverty, social isolation, multiple deprivation
Perceptual Awareness Through Touch
Ryan Nichols
in Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception
Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter explains how Reid arrives at his appeal to suggestion by an argument from elimination. It then discusses his application of his theory of suggestion to tactile perception. Reid claims ... More
This chapter explains how Reid arrives at his appeal to suggestion by an argument from elimination. It then discusses his application of his theory of suggestion to tactile perception. Reid claims that the Way of Ideas operates upon the assumption that the immediate intentional objects of our thoughts are ideas or other representational intermediaries. The Way of Ideas attempts to reduce contentful mental states to non-contentful features of those states, whereas Reid takes intentional content as irreducible and basic. Special attention is given to Reid's experimentum crucis, or ‘crucial test’, a thought experiment involving a subject's systematic sensory deprivation. Reid seeks to show that the uses of sensation, custom, and reasoning are singly and jointly insufficient for the formation of our perceptual contents. He takes this as a fine objection to the Way of Ideas, on which sensations and reflection upon sensations are sufficient for providing us with our perceptual contents.Less
This chapter explains how Reid arrives at his appeal to suggestion by an argument from elimination. It then discusses his application of his theory of suggestion to tactile perception. Reid claims that the Way of Ideas operates upon the assumption that the immediate intentional objects of our thoughts are ideas or other representational intermediaries. The Way of Ideas attempts to reduce contentful mental states to non-contentful features of those states, whereas Reid takes intentional content as irreducible and basic. Special attention is given to Reid's experimentum crucis, or ‘crucial test’, a thought experiment involving a subject's systematic sensory deprivation. Reid seeks to show that the uses of sensation, custom, and reasoning are singly and jointly insufficient for the formation of our perceptual contents. He takes this as a fine objection to the Way of Ideas, on which sensations and reflection upon sensations are sufficient for providing us with our perceptual contents.
Keywords: elimination, experience, sensory deprivation, sensations, Condillac, Way of Ideas
Rethinking the Measurement of Poverty
David Brady
in Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty
This chapter begins by reviewing the shortcomings of the official U.S. measure of poverty, arguing that it is unreliable and invalid. Then, the chapter reviews major theoretical and methodological ... More
This chapter begins by reviewing the shortcomings of the official U.S. measure of poverty, arguing that it is unreliable and invalid. Then, the chapter reviews major theoretical and methodological advances in poverty measurement and advocates five criteria in the measurement of poverty: (1) to measure comparative historical variation effectively, (2) to be relative rather than absolute, (3) to conceptualize poverty as social exclusion and capability deprivation, (4) to incorporate taxes and transfers, and (5) to integrate the depth of poverty. Overall, the aim is to facilitate the integration of theoretical and methodological advances into the empirical measurement of poverty. Also, criticisms are made of absolute measures of poverty, the measurement of poverty before taxes and transfers, and measures of redistribution. This chapter makes a theoretical argument regarding how poverty should be measured for the study of affluent democracies.Less
This chapter begins by reviewing the shortcomings of the official U.S. measure of poverty, arguing that it is unreliable and invalid. Then, the chapter reviews major theoretical and methodological advances in poverty measurement and advocates five criteria in the measurement of poverty: (1) to measure comparative historical variation effectively, (2) to be relative rather than absolute, (3) to conceptualize poverty as social exclusion and capability deprivation, (4) to incorporate taxes and transfers, and (5) to integrate the depth of poverty. Overall, the aim is to facilitate the integration of theoretical and methodological advances into the empirical measurement of poverty. Also, criticisms are made of absolute measures of poverty, the measurement of poverty before taxes and transfers, and measures of redistribution. This chapter makes a theoretical argument regarding how poverty should be measured for the study of affluent democracies.
Keywords: measurement, conceptualization, reliability, validity, methods, absolute poverty, relative poverty, redistribution, social exclusion, capability deprivation
Social Indicators: The EU and Social Inclusion
Tony Atkinson, Bea Cantillon, Eric Marlier, and Brian Nolan
Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating poverty and ... More
Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating poverty and social exclusion in several European countries and have begun to play a significant role in advancing the social dimension of the EU as a whole. The purpose of this book is to make a scientific contribution to the development of social indicators for the purposes of European policy‐making. It considers the principles underlying the construction of policy‐relevant indicators, the definition of indicators, and the issues that arise in their implementation, including that of the statistical data required. It seeks to bring together theoretical and methodological methods in the measurement of poverty/social exclusion with the empirical practice of social policy. The experience of member states is reviewed, including an assessment of the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion submitted for the first time in June 2001 by the 15 EU governments. The key areas covered by the book are poverty, including its intensity and persistence, income inequality, non‐monetary deprivation, low educational attainment, unemployment, joblessness, poor health, poor housing and homelessness, functional illiteracy and innumeracy, and restricted social participation. In each case, the book assesses the strengths and weaknesses of different indicators relevant to social inclusion in the EU, and makes recommendations for the indicators to be employed. The book is based on a report prepared at the request of the Belgian government, as part of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2001, and presented at a conference on ‘Indicators for Social Inclusion: Making Common EU Objectives Work’ held at Antwerp on 14–15 Sept 2001.Less
Social Indicators : The EU and Social Inclusion
Tony AtkinsonBea CantillonEric MarlierBrian Nolan
Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating poverty and social exclusion in several European countries and have begun to play a significant role in advancing the social dimension of the EU as a whole. The purpose of this book is to make a scientific contribution to the development of social indicators for the purposes of European policy‐making. It considers the principles underlying the construction of policy‐relevant indicators, the definition of indicators, and the issues that arise in their implementation, including that of the statistical data required. It seeks to bring together theoretical and methodological methods in the measurement of poverty/social exclusion with the empirical practice of social policy. The experience of member states is reviewed, including an assessment of the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion submitted for the first time in June 2001 by the 15 EU governments. The key areas covered by the book are poverty, including its intensity and persistence, income inequality, non‐monetary deprivation, low educational attainment, unemployment, joblessness, poor health, poor housing and homelessness, functional illiteracy and innumeracy, and restricted social participation. In each case, the book assesses the strengths and weaknesses of different indicators relevant to social inclusion in the EU, and makes recommendations for the indicators to be employed. The book is based on a report prepared at the request of the Belgian government, as part of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2001, and presented at a conference on ‘Indicators for Social Inclusion: Making Common EU Objectives Work’ held at Antwerp on 14–15 Sept 2001.
Keywords: construction of policy‐relevant indicators, construction of social indicators, definition of indicators, deprivation, educational attainment, EU, homelessness, illiteracy, income inequality, innumeracy, joblessness, low educational attainment, measurement of poverty, measurement of social exclusion, methodology, National Action Plans on Social Inclusion, non‐monetary deprivation, policy‐making, poor health, poor housing, poverty, restricted social participation, social development, social exclusion, Social Inclusion, Social indicators, social policy, statistical data, theory, unemployment
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
Yulia Ustinova
Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
In ancient Greece, a common method of search for divine wisdom was to descend into caves or underground chambers. Entering caves persistently appears as a major requirement for prophecy-giving, both ... More
In ancient Greece, a common method of search for divine wisdom was to descend into caves or underground chambers. Entering caves persistently appears as a major requirement for prophecy-giving, both in established cults and in the activities of individual seers. Underground sojourns recur in the activities of several early Greek sages and philosophers. Mystery initiations comprise rites located in caves or dark chambers. The sages, seers, and initiates shared a quest for hidden truth, which they attained as revelation or vision. Exploring the reasons for the predilection for caves in the search for ultimate truth, this book juxtaposes ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuroscience. This approach, new in Classical Studies, enables an examination of the consciousness of people who were engaged in the vision quest. It is argued that cave environment creates conditions which force the human mind to deviate from its normal waking state and to enter altered states of consciousness, in many cases leading to the sensation of ineffable revelation of ultimate reality. Altered states of consciousness often occur in people exposed to sensory deprivation. As a result, various mediators between gods and mortals practice prolonged isolation in caves and other closed spaces in their quest of ecstatic illumination. The book demonstrates that multiple cave experiences of the Greeks are culturally patterned responses to the states determined by the neurology of the human brain.Less
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind : Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
In ancient Greece, a common method of search for divine wisdom was to descend into caves or underground chambers. Entering caves persistently appears as a major requirement for prophecy-giving, both in established cults and in the activities of individual seers. Underground sojourns recur in the activities of several early Greek sages and philosophers. Mystery initiations comprise rites located in caves or dark chambers. The sages, seers, and initiates shared a quest for hidden truth, which they attained as revelation or vision. Exploring the reasons for the predilection for caves in the search for ultimate truth, this book juxtaposes ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuroscience. This approach, new in Classical Studies, enables an examination of the consciousness of people who were engaged in the vision quest. It is argued that cave environment creates conditions which force the human mind to deviate from its normal waking state and to enter altered states of consciousness, in many cases leading to the sensation of ineffable revelation of ultimate reality. Altered states of consciousness often occur in people exposed to sensory deprivation. As a result, various mediators between gods and mortals practice prolonged isolation in caves and other closed spaces in their quest of ecstatic illumination. The book demonstrates that multiple cave experiences of the Greeks are culturally patterned responses to the states determined by the neurology of the human brain.
Keywords: caves, altered states of consciousness, sensory deprivation, revelation, prophecy, seer, sage, philosopher, mystery initiations
Time Urgency, Sleep Loss, and Obesity
Peter C. Whybrow
in Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies
Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Advancing technology and global commerce have created a 24-hour society where the natural constraints on human activity of geography and distance are dissolving. The competitive challenge of this ... More
Advancing technology and global commerce have created a 24-hour society where the natural constraints on human activity of geography and distance are dissolving. The competitive challenge of this world offers excitement and opportunity, but also chronic stress, which is frequently experienced by individuals as anxiety and time urgency. Sleep deprivation is commonplace and often self-imposed. The cascade of physiological disruption so engendered has unintended health consequences including cardiovascular disease and obesity. In the latter, there is growing evidence that, together with reduced exercise, short sleep may help drive weight gain by disrupting the bi-directional communication among the body's autonomic, endocrine and immune systems and the brain. The homeostasis of the pro-inflammatory cytokines, and the appetite-modulating peptides, ghrelin and leptin, in each instance is disturbed by sleep debt. This biology is reviewed, together with a discussion of its implications within the broader social context.Less
Advancing technology and global commerce have created a 24-hour society where the natural constraints on human activity of geography and distance are dissolving. The competitive challenge of this world offers excitement and opportunity, but also chronic stress, which is frequently experienced by individuals as anxiety and time urgency. Sleep deprivation is commonplace and often self-imposed. The cascade of physiological disruption so engendered has unintended health consequences including cardiovascular disease and obesity. In the latter, there is growing evidence that, together with reduced exercise, short sleep may help drive weight gain by disrupting the bi-directional communication among the body's autonomic, endocrine and immune systems and the brain. The homeostasis of the pro-inflammatory cytokines, and the appetite-modulating peptides, ghrelin and leptin, in each instance is disturbed by sleep debt. This biology is reviewed, together with a discussion of its implications within the broader social context.
Keywords: sleep deprivation, obesity, stress, anxiety, time urgency, biology, social context
Cave Experiences and the Human Mind
in Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
This chapter surveys the wealth of literature on altered states of consciousness which in many cases lead to the sensation of ineffable revelation of superhuman truth. Altered states of consciousness ... More
This chapter surveys the wealth of literature on altered states of consciousness which in many cases lead to the sensation of ineffable revelation of superhuman truth. Altered states of consciousness often occur in people exposed to sensory deprivation. As a result, seers, shamans, and other mediators between gods and mortals practise prolonged isolation in caves and other closed spaces in their quest of ecstatic illumination. The tunnel sensation is characteristic of near-death experiences, which appear to have influenced assorted mystical ideas and practices. The assessment of the cross-cultural nature of altered states of consciousness makes apparent that out-of-body sensations and ecstatic insights of the Greek visionaries and sages were not imported from abroad. They developed within the Greek culture, deriving from the universals of human consciousness.Less
This chapter surveys the wealth of literature on altered states of consciousness which in many cases lead to the sensation of ineffable revelation of superhuman truth. Altered states of consciousness often occur in people exposed to sensory deprivation. As a result, seers, shamans, and other mediators between gods and mortals practise prolonged isolation in caves and other closed spaces in their quest of ecstatic illumination. The tunnel sensation is characteristic of near-death experiences, which appear to have influenced assorted mystical ideas and practices. The assessment of the cross-cultural nature of altered states of consciousness makes apparent that out-of-body sensations and ecstatic insights of the Greek visionaries and sages were not imported from abroad. They developed within the Greek culture, deriving from the universals of human consciousness.
Keywords: altered states of consciousness, cave experience, sensory deprivation, near-death experiences, out-of-body sensations, shaman
Seers and Poets
This chapter envisages the mental frame of freelance ‘impresarios of gods’, their behaviour, method of attaining illumination, and especially the role of cave experiences in their lives. The cave ... More
This chapter envisages the mental frame of freelance ‘impresarios of gods’, their behaviour, method of attaining illumination, and especially the role of cave experiences in their lives. The cave environment required for the Sibyls reflects the traditional Greek views on the conditions necessary for the quintessential seers. The blindness of sightless prophets and poets emphasizes their constant state of visual deprivation. The insistence of myths and quasi-historical narratives on sensory deprivation experienced by seers and bards is rooted in age-long observation, which gave rise to their conventional image in the popular tradition. The recurring immersion in the outer darkness of a grotto or in the inner darkness of blindness indicates that inspired visions and revelations came to Greek seers and poets from within their minds.Less
This chapter envisages the mental frame of freelance ‘impresarios of gods’, their behaviour, method of attaining illumination, and especially the role of cave experiences in their lives. The cave environment required for the Sibyls reflects the traditional Greek views on the conditions necessary for the quintessential seers. The blindness of sightless prophets and poets emphasizes their constant state of visual deprivation. The insistence of myths and quasi-historical narratives on sensory deprivation experienced by seers and bards is rooted in age-long observation, which gave rise to their conventional image in the popular tradition. The recurring immersion in the outer darkness of a grotto or in the inner darkness of blindness indicates that inspired visions and revelations came to Greek seers and poets from within their minds.
Keywords: Sibyls, seers, poets, caves, blindness, sensory deprivation
Hunger and Public Action
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen
This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world. The study is divided into four parts. The first, making extensive use of the concepts of ... More
This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world. The study is divided into four parts. The first, making extensive use of the concepts of entitlements and capabilities explores the interaction of nutritional, economic, social, and political elements and their influence on hunger and deprivation. The problem of famine prevention is the main focus of the second part, with special attention given to Africa and India. The third part is devoted to the issue of fighting chronic undernourishment and the lessons to be learnt from the policies of China, India, and some other countries. The last part draws together the main themes and concerns of the earlier chapters, and provides an integrated view of the role of public action in eliminating hunger. The study suggests that there is indeed some space for public action in solving the problem of hunger and deprivation. In the case of famine prevention, social security could provide early warning systems and employment provision plans. To fight endemic deprivation, the authors suggest, among other things, that basic health care, elementary education, and food programmes should be looked at.Less
Jean DrèzeAmartya Sen
This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world. The study is divided into four parts. The first, making extensive use of the concepts of entitlements and capabilities explores the interaction of nutritional, economic, social, and political elements and their influence on hunger and deprivation. The problem of famine prevention is the main focus of the second part, with special attention given to Africa and India. The third part is devoted to the issue of fighting chronic undernourishment and the lessons to be learnt from the policies of China, India, and some other countries. The last part draws together the main themes and concerns of the earlier chapters, and provides an integrated view of the role of public action in eliminating hunger. The study suggests that there is indeed some space for public action in solving the problem of hunger and deprivation. In the case of famine prevention, social security could provide early warning systems and employment provision plans. To fight endemic deprivation, the authors suggest, among other things, that basic health care, elementary education, and food programmes should be looked at.
Keywords: capability, chronic undernourishment, deprivation, entitlements, famine, hunger, public action, social security
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News Water restrictions in Greater Sydney expected to be relaxed from March
Water restrictions in Greater Sydney expected to be relaxed from March
| Feb 17,2020
Water restrictions in Greater Sydney are expected to be relaxed to Level 1 on the 1st of March as Sydney Dam levels reach 80 per cent following recent rainfall.
Minister for Water, Property and Housing Melinda Pavey said Level 2 water restrictions will remain in place for two more weeks to reduce the demand on the water supply network and ensure water quality remains high.
“We recently experienced the biggest rain event in 20 years, which has impacted the quality of raw water in Greater Sydney’s bushfire affected catchment,” Mrs Pavey said.
“A number of initiatives are in place to ensure the water is safe for use, including extensive testing, filtration and nets to catch debris, but we are allowing an extra two weeks purely as a precautionary measure.”
“It will also give the system time to recover and on the 1st of March we expect Greater Sydney will revert back to Level 1 water restrictions, subject to water quality assessment by Water NSW and Sydney Water.”
Under Level 1 water restrictions, residents and businesses are not able to leave hoses running unattended, wash vehicles and buildings with a hose that isn’t fitted with a trigger nozzle, or use standard sprinklers and watering systems at any time.
Mrs Pavey acknowledged people have been patient and applauded their efforts to reduce the amount of water being used annually – from 200L per person per day in 2017, to 180L today.
“Despite a 26 per cent increase in population, the total demand for drinking water remains lower than it did before mandatory restrictions were introduced in late 2003,” Mrs Pavey said.
Fines will still apply for breaches of water restrictions - $220 for residential breaches and $550 for businesses. Exemptions will be available for non-residential customers with outdoor water use as their core business.
For a full list of requirements for Level 1 and 2 water restrictions visit: lovewater.sydney
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5 Diseases That Commonly Coexist With Migraine
More in Migraines
Causes & Risk Factors
Colleen Doherty, MD
Colleen Doherty, MD, is a board-certified internist living with multiple sclerosis.
Medically reviewed by Claudia Chaves, MD on August 16, 2019
Claudia Chaves, MD, is board-certified in cerebrovascular disease and neurology with a subspecialty certification in vascular neurology.
Claudia Chaves, MD
1. Fibromyalgia
2. Mood Disorders
3. Gastrointestinal Disease
5. Cardiovascular Disease
Migraine is a complex brain disorder that is believed to result from a slew of factors including trigeminal nerve fiber activation, serotonin release, structural brain changes, genetics, and a phenomenon called central sensitization, to name a few.
In addition to migraine's fascinating and tangled biology, this neurological disorder is also believed to coexist with (and perhaps be intricately linked to) a number of health conditions.
Gaining knowledge about these conditions may provide clues into your migraine and overall health, and potentially even affect your treatment plans.
Verywell / JR Bee
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition that is characterized by widespread muscle pain, debilitating fatigue, memory loss, sleeping difficulties, and mood disorders, like anxiety and depression. Migraine headaches are common in those who suffer from fibromyalgia.
In fact, research suggests that up to 35 percent of migraineurs also have fibromyalgia.
Considering both fibromyalgia and migraine are disabling pain conditions on their own, the idea of them co-existing is worrisome. Each disorder may potentially feed into the other, creating a vicious cycle of pain—one that significantly affects a person's daily functioning and quality of life.
While the common co-existence of these conditions still perplexes experts, many believe that the phenomenon called central sensitization may be the common thread here. With central sensitization, a person's nervous system remains in a state of high reactivity where the body's threshold for pain is low.
More precisely, central sensitization explains the symptom of allodynia, seen in both fibromyalgia and migraine headache attacks. With allodynia, a person experiences pain with non-painful stimuli, such as a light touch or bedsheet pressing against your skin.
If you suffer from migraines, it's reasonable to ask your doctor to screen you for symptoms of fibromyalgia, especially if you are suffering from various overlapping symptoms like depression, anxiety, and sleeping difficulties. There may be a possibility that the treatment of your fibromyalgia may help thwart off your migraines.
A bidirectional link exists between migraines and mood disorders, specifically depression and anxiety. This means that migraines may directly trigger a depressive or anxiety disorder and vice versa—depression or anxiety can increase a person's risk for developing migraines or cause more severe migraine attacks.
While the strong association between migraines and mood disturbances is complicated, experts believe the co-occurrence of these disorders may be due to shared biological pathways—ones that involve the imbalance of the brain chemicals (called neurotransmitters) serotonin and norepinephrine.
In addition to chemical imbalances, genes or hormone influences (especially estrogen in women) may play a role in the development of migraines and mood disorders.
It's important to talk with your doctor if you are suffering from symptoms of depression and/or anxiety, in addition to your migraines. There are numerous therapy options that can target both migraines and mood disorders. Some of these therapies include engaging in an intervention like cognitive-behavioral therapy that targets relaxation and pain management training and/or taking a specific antidepressant, like Elavil (amitriptyline) or Effexor (venlafaxine).
Several gastrointestinal diseases have been linked to migraine, with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) being the most notable one. IBS is a digestive disorder characterized by abdominal discomfort and bowel habit changes, like diarrhea and constipation.
In linking migraines to IBS, experts suspect that several factors may be involved. Some of these factors include gut bacteria and the brain-gut axis, serotonin levels, your immune system, genetics, and a phenomenon called central sensitization.
In addition to IBS, migraine has been linked to other gastrointestinal diseases.
These include (although much less robustly):
The connection between your brain and gut is fascinating and an evolving area of research. If you do suffer from GI symptoms—diarrhea, constipation, heartburn, abdominal pain, to name a few—it's best to speak to your doctor. Specific treatments, like elimination diets, or taking medication (such as an antidepressant) that target both conditions may benefit both your GI and migraine health.
Complementary therapies, like acupuncture, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and taking a probiotic, may also be considered.
Insomnia refers to difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early in the morning and being unable to go back to sleep. As a result of these sleeping difficulties, various daytime symptoms arise like poor attention and concentration, fatigue and malaise, anxiety and irritability, and reduced motivation and energy.
Many migraineurs suffer from insomnia and poor sleep, which can trigger more frequent and severe migraine attacks. Even more, insomnia may precipitate the transformation from episodic migraine to chronic migraine (when a person experiences migraines 15 days or more per month).
The good news is that strategies to combat insomnia, specifically cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTI) can improve your sleep and subsequently reduce migraine frequency.
If you suffer from sleeping difficulties, consider seeing a sleep specialist, especially if your insomnia is chronic (occurring at least three days a week for three months). Also keep in mind that aside from insomnia, other sleep disorders such as restless leg syndrome and sleep bruxism have been linked to migraines.
According to a large Danish study, migraine is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and heart attack. These associations were stronger in women than in men and in those with migraine aura than migraine without aura.
5 Types of Migraine Auras Visualized and Explained
Keep in mind, it's difficult to sort out the intricate connection between migraine and cardiovascular disease, especially considering there are numerous factors that may increase a person's chance for having a stroke or a heart attack such as smoking, the use of oral contraceptives, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and a family history of heart disease.
While it's hard to tease out why people with migraines may be at a higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease, it's a potentially important relationship for you and your doctor to consider.
Besides reviewing and addressing potential cardiovascular risk factors with your doctor (which is best to do regardless of whether you suffer from migraines or not), how you prevent and treat your migraines needs to be considered. This is because the presence of cardiovascular disease limits the use of certain migraine medications.
Sorting out the connections between your migraines and other health conditions is a challenging process. While some of them may be related, others may not be, and treating one ailment is not a guarantee of treating the other condition. Regardless, it's best to look at your overall health to determine if your individual health conditions may be interrelated.
Besides discussing these connections with your doctor, focus on factors within your life you can control such as seeing your doctor regularly, eating well-balanced, nutritious meals, exercising regularly, and managing your stress which will all contribute to better health.
What to Do When You Have a Migraine
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You are cordially invited to bring home Downton Abbey! Viking is a proud partner of Focus Features’ hit film and we are excited to announce its upcoming release this holiday season, on digital November 27 and Blu-ray™ & DVD December 17. This partnership continues our long history with Downton Abbey and our expanded programs with Highclere Castle and the Carnarvon family.
Flavors of the Mekong
History, culture and friends—all rolled into one delicious and creative feast. Explore the floating markets along the Mekong Delta and master the culinary art of rolling your very own Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Karine.
Viking Longships Naming Ceremony 2019
During a festive naming ceremony in Basel, Switzerland, Viking welcomed seven new Europe river ships to its award-winning fleet, including six innovative Viking Longships. Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen is pictured with the ships’ honorary godmothers at the Picasso exhibition at Basel’s Foundation Beyeler museum.
Romantic Middle Rhine
Experience the majestic stretch of the Rhine River known affectionately as the “Romantic Middle Rhine.” Winding past quaint villages and medieval castles, this idyllic waterway offers a window into the past and unmatched vistas.
Viking Proudly Presents: The Chaperone
One was reaching for the stars. The other was reaching for her past.
From the writer and director of Downton Abbey comes the first theatrical release from MASTERPIECE FILMS | PBS. Based on Laura Moriarty’s beloved New York Times best-selling novel, The Chaperone reunites the writer (Oscar-winner Julian Fellowes), director (Michael Engler) and star (Elizabeth McGovern) of Downton Abbey for an immersive and richly emotional period piece featuring the story of Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen sensation who epitomized the restless spirit of the Jazz Age. In theaters March 29, 2019.
Marvel at the ingenuity and ethereal quality of Gothic architecture, a style inspired by a period when religion governed life and epitomized by Europe’s soaring cathedrals from the 12th to 16th centuries.
The Impressionists
Learn the story of how impressionist paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Degas forever changed the face of the art world and became a symbol of modern French life. Follow these iconic artists’ footsteps on a France river cruise with Viking.
Top 10 Reasons to Reserve a Viking Longship Suite
Our elegant, award-winning Viking Longships are recognized for their innovative design allowing for river cruising’s first-ever true (two-room) suites. Complete with a full-size veranda, these Viking Suites offer more space and comfort, early check-in, a welcome bottle of champagne and more. Learn more about what the Viking Suite Collection has to offer.
Top 10 Reasons to Reserve a Viking Suite
Whether you choose to travel with Viking by river or by sea, we bring you closer to your destinations on state-of-the-art ships. In addition to our refined onboard ambience and understated elegance, we are known for our graceful staterooms, including the first-ever true (two-room) suites. From more space and comfort to additional features and amenities, discover the benefits of reserving a Viking Suite.
Genius: Picasso
Viking is proud to continue as a presenting sponsor of Genius: Picasso, building on our ongoing commitment to providing enriching cultural programming. Executive produced by Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Genius: Picasso costars Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Antonio Banderas as Picasso and True Detective/Glow’s Alex Rich as the younger Pablo.
Highclere Behind the Scenes: Mike the Beekeeper
Join Karine and Finse as they explore the world of bees with Mike Withers, a thirty-year member of the Highclere staff, whose passion for these hard-working, misunderstood insects spans 60 years.
Highclere Behind the Scenes: Pat the Painter
Meet Pat Withers, one of the castle’s favorite, most colorful characters, who came to Highclere as a teenager and never left. As the longest serving staff member at Highclere, she’s worked for three generations of the Carnarvon family.
At Home at Highclere
Join Karine as she speaks with the Countess of Carnarvon about her new book, At Home at Highclere. Learn about what it is like to live in this stately castle, and its history, delicious food and dedicated staff.
Koblenz Jewish Cemetery
Join Karine for the moving story of the Koblenz Jewish Cemetery, a sanctuary of reflection and a window into the history of a community and culture that were once nearly lost.
Iconic Marksburg Castle
Painstakingly chiseled into the slate bedrock of a mountain peak, Marksburg has long stood as one of Germany’s most formidable castles. Step back into the Middle Ages with Karine as she explores the heart of this legendary stronghold.
Tucked away in the midst of a verdant forest is the exquisite Schloss Mespelbrunn. Take a peek inside as Gräfin (Countess) Hedwig Margarete shares her home, and learn more about the castle’s legendary past.
Modern Aristocracy
The Löwenstein family is one of Germany’s cultural treasures. Step behind the scenes to meet Fürst (Prince) Alois-Konstantin and his daughter-in-law Princess Stephanie as they share family history and the secret behind the renowned Fürst Löwenstein wines.
Journey through the world’s most exciting destinations with The World’s Leading River Cruise Line.
Austria’s Hotel Sacher and Torte
Join Karine (and her beloved dog Finse) and step into the spirit of old Europe at Vienna’s iconic Hotel Sacher to learn the story behind the Sachertorte, its legendary handmade cake.
Gothic Cologne Cathedral
Explore the history of this ornate architectural masterpiece. Towering over the Rhine, the majestic Cologne cathedral has been a beacon for pilgrims from around the world for centuries.
Austria’s Göttweig Abbey
Journey to a living abbey where Benedictine monks have worked and worshipped for more than 900 years on a hilltop overlooking the Wachau Valley. You may even dance the waltz with one!
Learn the Iconic Viennese Waltz
Learn the iconic Viennese waltz at Vienna’s oldest and most famous dance school, Tanzschule Elmayer. Watch Professor Elmayer teach Karine the basic steps in just a few minutes.
Viking Onboard Experience
Tour our stylish ships, designed with understated elegance and comfort in mind. Spacious staterooms, indoor and outdoor dining venues and panoramic views enrich your travel experience.
With Viking, there are no hidden fees. One price covers most everything—port charges, Wi-Fi, meals, lectures, activities and shore excursions—plus hotel accommodations on cruisetours.
Longship Staterooms
The streamlined Scandinavian design and generous amenities of the staterooms on board Viking Longships create a lovely place to call home while exploring the waterways of Europe. Find out why.
Sailing Southeast Asia with Viking
Explore Southeast Asia in comfort on board elegant Viking ships. Relax as you enjoy breathtaking, upper-deck views from your stateroom and savor local cuisine in the intimate restaurant.
Viking Astrild and Viking Beyla
Viking Astrild and Viking Beyla were custom built for the Elbe River. These sister ships include deluxe accommodations, streamlined interiors and many features of our Viking Longships.
Viking Hemming and Viking Torgil
Custom built for Portugal’s Douro River, the intimate, state-of-the-art Viking Hemming and Viking Torgil feature several stateroom categories and lounges with floor-to-ceiling windows.
Viking Ships of Russia
Our refurbished, elegant Russian fleet sets new standards of excellence in this region. Enjoy spacious staterooms and suites, an inviting restaurant and beautiful public spaces.
The World of Viking
Immerse yourself in intriguing cultures and awaken your senses. Discover new horizons as you spend more time in port, giving you more opportunities to explore. This is the World of Viking.
Viking Longships Christening 2016
During a festive waterfront Christening Ceremony in Amsterdam, Viking was proud to welcome six of its new Viking Longships to the award-winning and innovative fleet.
Designed by New York architect Daniel Libeskind, Berlin’s compelling Jewish Museum provides an unforgettable journey through Jewish culture and a rich chronicle of memory and hope.
The Berlin Airlift
Go behind the scenes at Tempelhof Airport, long closed to visitors, and learn about the famed “Raisin Bombers” and their role during the historic Berlin Airlift, the largest in history.
Join Karine in Bordeaux, France as she learns how dogs are trained to sniff out and unearth a treasured French delicacy, the rare and delicious truffle.
Blaye Citadel
Step inside the historic Blaye Citadel with Karine. Louis XIV built this mighty fortress in the 17th century on the banks of the Gironde River to protect Bordeaux from the British.
Bordeaux’s Clairet & Rosé Wines
Introduce yourself to some hidden gems of Bordeaux’s world-renowned viniculture. You will learn subtle differences in wine profiles and why the French treasure their bounty each summer.
Camus Cognac: A Bordeaux Favorite
Go behind this famous brand to meet the head of the house of Camus. Hear the story of its logo and learn the family philosophy that has guided the company for five generations.
Bordeaux’s Prestigious Wines
Venture into the fascinating world of Bordeaux winemaking with Karine. Meet a renowned Master of Wine and learn about regional favorites from local experts.
Bordeaux’s Sublime Wines
Join Karine as she delves into the essence of Bordeaux’s most popular red and white wines with a local expert, learning some secrets of summoning a wine’s character along the way.
Cooking with Karine: Steak Bordelaise
Join Karine as she learns the secrets of preparing Steak Bordelaise, Bordeaux’s celebrated and classic dish, with local gourmand, chef Georges Gotrand.
The Wine Regions of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France’s celebrated vineyard-laden province, is home to some of the world’s most prized wines. Learn about its different regions and appellations with Karine.
Beijing Hutongs
To experience an authentic slice of real Chinese life, step into the hidden corners of the hutong alleyways, an ancient maze of traditional courtyard houses linked by narrow corridors.
For millennia, the Chinese have balanced their energy with tai chi, acupuncture, herbal medicine and more. Join Karine and learn more about their approach to healthy living.
Join Karine as she learns about the history of Chinese porcelain, an art form created during the Han Dynasty and shaped by artisans from the Song, Ming and other dynasties.
Chinese Superstitions
Why do many Chinese office buildings lack a fourth floor? What color attracts prosperity? Join Karine and learn about some of China’s time-honored beliefs.
Cooking with Karine: Noodles
Watch as onboard Viking Chef Fong gives Karine a hands-on lesson that reveals some traditional culinary secrets that go into preparing the world’s finest noodles.
Food in China
Venture into a Chinese night market to sample some of China’s most beloved delicacies. Join Karine and discover the secrets of hot pot, Peking duck, homemade noodles and more.
Karine helps reveal the heart of China’s greatest mystery. Once closed to all but royalty, now this legendary “treasure box” is open to guests like us.
Secrets of Chinese Tea
Legend has it that tea was discovered 5,000 years ago. Learn about the beloved beverage’s place in Chinese culture, lore and medicine.
Shanghai Acrobats
Dexterity and strength, passion and focus. Join Karine backstage as she watches some of the world’s most courageous artists perfect their gravity-defying acrobatics.
Shibaozhai
Learn about mysterious Shibaozhai and the Bridge of Luck, beautifully situated in the middle of the mighty Yangtze. Join Karine as she unveils the secrets of this twelve-story temple.
The Art of Calligraphy
In China, calligraphy is not just a form of writing but it is a revered form of art that dates back millennia. Join Karine and learn its timeless secrets from an expert calligrapher.
The Story of Silk
From humble silkworms to beautiful custom silk jackets, learn how the most famous fabric of China is made as Karine takes you on a fascinating visit to a silk factory.
The Three Gorges
Enjoy a scenic journey with Karine through China’s most dramatic region, the Yangtze River’s Three Gorges, and learn about some of the area’s residents, past and present.
What to Do in China?
Have a little extra time on your own while exploring China with Viking? Karine has a few recommendations for you, from tai chi in Beijing to exploring Taikan Lane in historic Shanghai.
Yuyuan Garden
Chosen by the wealthy Pan family as the location of their retirement home, the Yuyuan Garden is a serene example of a traditional Chinese garden—juxtaposed against the backdrop of Shanghai.
Croatian Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Croatian words and phrases with Ivana, your Viking tutor. Živjeli!
Explore the ornate halls of Britain’s Blenheim Palace with Karine. This grand English estate, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, has close ties to the American Vanderbilts and is the seat of the Duke of Marlborough.
Finse Comes Home to Highclere
This is a reunion unlike any other as Karine’s golden Labrador Finse returns home to Highclere Castle, the "real Downton Abbey,” and gets reacquainted with her brothers and sisters.
Join Karine at the “real Downton Abbey,” the historic and renowned Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, home to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
Visit Oxford & Highclere Castle
Travel with Viking to the hallowed halls of the University of Oxford, historic Highclere Castle, the “real Downton Abbey,” grand Blenheim Palace and the fabled villages of the Cotswolds.
Visit the University of Oxford
Join Karine as she goes behind the scenes at the University of Oxford, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions and alma mater to kings and presidents.
Explore Europe with Viking
Sail Europe’s picturesque waterways in elegant comfort with Viking. Ranging from 7 to 23 days, our itineraries offer a wealth of unforgettable journeys across the continent.
Bacalhau: Portuguese or Norwegian?
Watch as chef Rui Paula shows Karine his unique nouvelle cuisine twist on bacalhau, the beloved Portuguese national dish that is based on cod, one of Norway’s national fish.
French Language Lesson
Learn a few useful French words and phrases with Maaike, your Viking tutor. À votre Santé!
Thanksgiving in Europe
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Viking on November sailings. There is no better way to complement your succulent turkey dinner than with a stroll through one of Europe’s cultural capitals.
The Holidays on Danube Waltz
Celebrate the holidays in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Enjoy splendid art, architecture, history and the festive Christmas market tradition in Europe’s most beloved cities.
The Holidays on Paris & the Heart of Normandy
Unwrap the romance of France at Christmastime. Experience the elegance of Paris and explore the tranquil countryside, picturesque Les Andelys, medieval Rouen and the D-Day sites of Normandy.
The Holidays on Rhine Getaway
Explore the timeless wonders of Amsterdam, Cologne, Heidelberg, Strasbourg, the Black Forest and Basel. From The Netherlands to Switzerland, this is an unforgettable holiday season experience.
The Holidays on Romantic Danube
Discover the Danube’s delights in Hungary, Austria and Germany. From historic Budapest and stunning Vienna to medieval Regensburg, experience the holiday season like never before.
Farmers’ Market in Libourne, France
Walk through Libourne’s bustling market with Karine and Chef Magalie of Viking as they shop for fresh fruits and vegetables to be served in the ship’s dining room.
Listen to “The Traveler”
The National Symphony Orchestra of London records Viking’s beautiful new music score at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios. Written by Debbie Wiseman, Classic FM Composer in Residence, “The Traveler” was created to celebrate the company’s 20th Anniversary, its spirited theme reflecting the exploration and discovery found on Viking voyages.
“The Traveler”: Meet the Composer
Join Karine and meet Debbie Wiseman, London’s Classic FM Composer in Residence. Learn how Debbie’s voyages with Viking inspired this beautiful piece of music, written to celebrate our 20th Anniversary.
“The Traveler”: Behind the Scenes
Step inside the hallowed halls of London’s Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded nearly all their hits. Join Karine as she shares the process of transforming an original composition into a powerful piece of recorded music.
Explorer Leif Eriksson
Join Viking as we chronicle the story of Leif Eriksson, the Norse navigator who set out to explore the seas west of Greenland and discovered America, 500 years before Columbus.
The Viking Way
Go beyond the expected and experience The Viking Way. Engage in Local Life, learn about the Working World and enjoy Privileged Access to people and places otherwise difficult to visit.
The World of Finse with Suzy-Jane Tanner
In this short documentary, we visit Suzy-Jane Tanner who illustrates the World of Finse books produced by Viking. We talk about her life and experiences, while talking through how she produces the beautiful illustrations.
Viking is proud to showcase our newest national television commercial, “Time,” featuring Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen.
Join Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen as he shares his insights on travel and the benefits of engaging with new cultures.
Viking Guest Reviews
There are countless reasons to explore the world with Viking, from our exemplary service and cultural enrichment to our unmatched value. Listen as our guests share their experiences.
Moscow by Night
Moscow by night is a dazzling spectacle of illumination. Join Karine on a short tour of the city’s light show, proving this is one of those cities that never sleeps.
D-Day at Normandy
Meet Robert Allen, a World War II veteran who bravely came ashore at Normandy . . . then returned with Viking, sharing some of his memories with us.
Cooking with Karine: Bratwurst
Taste a variety of German delicacies with Karine in Nuremberg’s medieval district, and learn some of the best side dishes to go with them, perhaps paired with a local brew.
Learn about the war crimes tribunals that took place in Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice as the entire world watched with rapt attention, and consider seeing Courtroom 600 for yourself.
Cooking with Karine: Bread
Dona Manuela’s family has been making its famous Portuguese bread for centuries. Join Karine as Dona Manuela teaches her how to prepare this beloved delicacy celebrated the world over.
Fado, Music of Portugal
Learn about the dramatic songs of fado, born along Portugal’s waterfront. This music of passion often depicted the longing of women waiting for their men to return from sea.
History of Port Wines
Take a journey with Karine as she explores Portugal’s history of wine and gains insight into its production and the various types of port, with a local expert on hand.
Portugal’s Wine Country
In 1756, Portugal’s Douro River Valley became the world’s first protected wine-producing region, and today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Learn more about the region’s famous port wine.
Portuguese Crème Brûlée
Go behind the scenes with Karine to see how easy it is to make this local variation of everyone’s favorite dessert. You may want to take notes during this hands-on demonstration!
Portuguese Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Portuguese words and phrases with Maria, your Viking tutor. Saúde!
Prague Microbrewery
In 1466, just off Prague’s Old Town Square, a tiny microbrewery first opened its doors. Today, on the same spot, Ladislav Vesely continues the tradition of making the finest Czech beer.
Prague Synagogue
When in Prague, be sure to visit the Old New Synagogue in Josefov, the Jewish Quarter. This is the oldest synagogue in Europe, where generations have been worshipping since 1270.
A Russian Hero
Meet Mikhail Bobrov, the “Most Honored Citizen of St. Petersburg.” The legendary Russian adventurer stopped Nazi warplanes and saved countless lives during the siege of Leningrad by putting his own life on the line.
Eyewitness to History
Karine talks with Vladlen Kuzin, former head of propaganda and director of the Leningrad Documentary Studio, about the part he has played in documenting the culture and history of the former Soviet Union.
Karine Welcomes You to Her Russia
Karine has spent much of her adult life in Russia and remains captivated and entertained by the country and its culture. Come along as she shares her deep love and fascination for this charming country and its people.
Kommunalka Home Visit
Come inside for a private tour of a typical Soviet Russian home, a kommunalka, a communal apartment like those shared by many Russian families for generations in the post-revolutionary years of the 20th century.
Red Flag Factory
Visit a former Soviet icon soon to be reborn as a business, arts and cultural center. See fascinating footage of this architectural gem’s past as a factory where uniforms were made.
Russian Food: Soups
No Russian meal is complete without homemade soup, a central element of culinary culture. Karine samples two types of borscht, the nationally renowned beet soup, and other tasty dishes.
Russian Food: Starters
Here are some specialties Russians might enjoy as a starter to their main meal. From pickled mushrooms to the Salad Olivier, a traditional New Year’s dish, try some for yourself!
Russian Food: Sweets
Russian meals are often topped off with something sweet. Sample some favorite desserts with Karine, from kisel, a red berry soup, to oladi, a thick pancake served with cream and jam.
Russian Superstitions
Why do Russians avoid shaking hands over a doorway’s threshold? Or sit on their luggage before departing on a journey? See some of the unusual ways good fortune is ensured in Russia.
Travel to Russia with Viking
With Viking, you will visit Russia’s great cities; sail the Volga, Svir and Neva Rivers and through Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga; and explore charming Golden Ring cities.
River Cruising: Russia & Ukraine
Moscow. St. Petersburg. Kiev. Odessa. Learn what it is really like to journey through Russia or Ukraine with Viking.
Are You a First-Time River Cruiser?
There is no more enriching and convenient way to travel than on a Viking river cruise. If you are new to river cruising and would like to know what you can expect, watch this video.
Christening Highlights 2014
Learn how Viking earned the Guinness World Records title for “Most Ships Inaugurated in One Day by One Company,” an event that unfolded in Amsterdam, Rostock and Avignon.
Cooking with Karine: In the Galley
Ever wonder what goes on in your river ship’s galley? Take a look inside the kitchen at the peak of mealtime as Karine dons an apron and joins the ranks of our talented crew.
Exploring in Comfort
See what sets Viking apart: daily cultural immersion, opportunities for leisure and relaxation, and events that engage your mind and enliven your spirit. Learn more here.
Making a Viking Longship
Witness the intricate craftsmanship and herculean efforts that go into building a Viking Longship as you pay a fascinating visit to Rostock’s Neptun Yard along Germany’s northern coast.
Setting a New Standard
Learn about the past and future of Viking and the innovations behind our Viking Longships. Then come explore the great rivers of the world in unprecedented comfort.
The Original Longships
Delve into the past for a look into the art of building a Viking longship. Meet a master boatbuilder and learn about the role these vessels played in Viking society centuries ago.
Viking Longships: Explorer Suite
The exceptional Explorer Suites on board Viking Longships feature separate sleeping and sitting rooms, a wraparound veranda with 270° views, a French balcony and hotel-style amenities.
During simultaneous christenings in Amsterdam and Rostock, Germany, Viking welcomed 10 award-winning Viking Longships and two custom vessels for the Elbe River to its European fleet.
Viking Longships Tour
With their innovative patented design, al fresco Aquavit Terrace and understated elegance, Viking Longships provide the most rewarding way to explore Europe. Find out more on this short tour.
Viking Longships: Innovative Elegance
Our innovative Viking Longships offer full-size verandas and the largest suites on Europe’s rivers. Dine in the restaurant or al fresco on our Aquavit Terrace, all with panoramic views.
Viking Prestige and Viking Legend
The sleek, award-winning Viking Prestige and Viking Legend feature elegant decor, inviting restaurants, panoramic windows, and spacious suites and staterooms. On Viking Prestige, you may dine al fresco on the innovative Aquavit Terrace, a delightful outdoor seating area with panoramic views.
Viking Ships of Eastern Europe
Our elegant, completely refurbished Russian fleet and Ukraine ship set a new standard for river cruising excellence in this region, offering the ambience and comforts of a fine hotel.
Canals of St. Petersburg
Join Karine and discover why majestic St. Petersburg is known as the “Venice of the North” during a tour of the city’s vast network of canals and bridges.
Hermitage Access
Experience St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, the unrivaled art collection of Catherine the Great, as you never imagined: with personalized, after-hours tours by expert curators.
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Health insurance premiums to go up
Rates to increase 20-30 percent
I-Team Reporter
Health insurance premiums are going up as much as 30 percent for those who buy individual or small group plans, and the reason is that young people aren't getting into the marketplace and that's driving up expenses.
Get ready for sticker shock if you buy your own health insurance: Rates are headed up, way up.Ninety percent of Marylanders get their insurance through large group plans. These hikes don't affect those people, but they will take a toll on about half a million people who buy their own insurance or get it through a small group plan.On the small group side, there will be relatively small single digit increases. It's the individual market that's hit hard with the increases 20 to 30 percent.The Maryland Insurance Administration said its actuaries reviewed data and listened to public comments, along with other factors to set the rates.Care First Blue Choice Inc. requested a 27.8 percent rate change. It got 23.7 percent. Carefirst of Maryland Inc. asked for 36.6 percent. It got 31 point 4 percent.Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company asked for 29.8 percent and got just that, and Evergreen Health Cooperative asked for 8.8 percent and got a 20.3 percent increase. Its rates were raised to cover costs associated with risk adjustment fees the insurer has to pay.Evergreen CEO Peter Beilenson said he regrets that rates going up, but it had to be done."One of the reasons the rates are going up is young people are not getting into the market. The older sicker people who didn't have coverage before are now getting needed health care coverage, but it's expensive," Beilenson said.Beilenson said the way to fix that will not be popular. He said the tax penalties for not having insurance will have to go up in order to force young people to buy insurance."They have to look at the $695 tax penalty for getting nothing or buy $1,500 or $2,000 insurance. Right now, that's not enough to push them to get insurance we have to increase the penalty to get as many people into the pool as we can," Beilenson said.And that's when rates will start to come down. For now, the Maryland Insurance Administration said you have to be a savvy consumer."They can shop for their insurance and they can also apply for subsidies and if they qualify based on income," said Traci Imm, with Maryland Insurance Administration.Open enrollment runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 31.Get the WBAL-TV News App
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Get ready for sticker shock if you buy your own health insurance: Rates are headed up, way up.
Ninety percent of Marylanders get their insurance through large group plans. These hikes don't affect those people, but they will take a toll on about half a million people who buy their own insurance or get it through a small group plan.
On the small group side, there will be relatively small single digit increases. It's the individual market that's hit hard with the increases 20 to 30 percent.
The Maryland Insurance Administration said its actuaries reviewed data and listened to public comments, along with other factors to set the rates.
Care First Blue Choice Inc. requested a 27.8 percent rate change. It got 23.7 percent. Carefirst of Maryland Inc. asked for 36.6 percent. It got 31 point 4 percent.
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company asked for 29.8 percent and got just that, and Evergreen Health Cooperative asked for 8.8 percent and got a 20.3 percent increase. Its rates were raised to cover costs associated with risk adjustment fees the insurer has to pay.
Evergreen CEO Peter Beilenson said he regrets that rates going up, but it had to be done.
"One of the reasons the rates are going up is young people are not getting into the market. The older sicker people who didn't have coverage before are now getting needed health care coverage, but it's expensive," Beilenson said.
Beilenson said the way to fix that will not be popular. He said the tax penalties for not having insurance will have to go up in order to force young people to buy insurance.
"They have to look at the $695 tax penalty for getting nothing or buy $1,500 or $2,000 insurance. Right now, that's not enough to push them to get insurance we have to increase the penalty to get as many people into the pool as we can," Beilenson said.
And that's when rates will start to come down. For now, the Maryland Insurance Administration said you have to be a savvy consumer.
"They can shop for their insurance and they can also apply for subsidies and if they qualify based on income," said Traci Imm, with Maryland Insurance Administration.
Open enrollment runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 31.
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Sub-Saharan Africa low domestic revenue mobilization worrisome – IMF
By Rearabilwe Ramaphane
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook Report on Africa has projected that Sub Saharan Africa economies will grow from 2.8 percent in 2017 to 3.4 percent in 2018 on average, with growth accelerating in about two-thirds of the countries in the region aided by stronger global growth, higher commodity prices, and improved capital market access.
The report, released at the beginning of this month, says the region is set to enjoy a modest growth uptick and that decisive policies are needed to both reduce vulnerabilities and raise medium-term growth prospects. “On current policies, average growth in the region is expected to plateau below 4 percent barely 1 percent in per capita terms over the medium term highlighting the need for deliberate actions to boost growth potential,” reads the report.
According to the Washington based Global Economic Policy think tank, turning the current recovery into sustained strong growth consistent with the achievement of the SDGs would require policies to both reduce vulnerabilities and raise medium-term growth prospects. The report further highlights that prudent fiscal policy was needed to rein in public debt, while monetary policy must be geared toward ensuring low inflation.
According to the organization, the growth pickup has been also driven by a more supportive external environment; while external imbalances have narrowed, the record on fiscal consolidation has been mixed and vulnerabilities are rising as about 40 percent of low-income countries in the region are now assessed as being in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. Domestic revenue mobilization is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing sub-Saharan African countries.
The IMF says almost all African countries are seeking to raise revenue to make progress toward their sustainable development goals while preserving fiscal sustainability. The IMF also observes that despite substantial progress in the revenue mobilization, sub- Saharan Africa was still one of the regions with the lowest revenue-to-GDP ratio.
Case studies of successful revenue mobilization episodes in the region highlight the importance of medium term revenue strategies to strengthen the basic building blocks of effective tax administration, emphasizing efforts to broaden tax base and mobilizing institutional processes. “Developing new sources of taxation such as property tax and harnessing new technologies that could facilitate access to more reliable information are also important.
Moreover since the revenue mobilization is a process that needs to be successful,” commented Janoslaw Wleczork one of the IMF Africa lead Economic Researchers. Wleczork shares that while the reasons may vary according to country-specific circumstances, there are three aspects of domestic revenue mobilization that make it so important.
The report also underscores that private investment in sub-Saharan Africa is low compared to other countries with similar levels of economic development. “The low level of private investment is constraining the region’s efforts to improve social outcomes by holding back labor productivity and the resulting gains in real wages and households’ income.”
The IMF also emphasizes private investment as a critical factor for the region to achieve sustainable growth and improve social outcomes over the medium term. “While public investment in the region is a similar level to other regions of the world, private investment in sub-Saharan Africa lags well below other regions. As such reforms such as Public –Private Partnerships (PPP), Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and proper mechanism to attract foreign direct investment needed to be given more attention,” underscores the report.
IMF also highlights that PPPs need to be considered carefully in view of the risks, advising that proper management of PPPs requires the adopting of institutional and legal frameworks to asses and limit risks as such projects often entrain contingent liabilities. The IMF also says that while SEZs can, in some cases be successful in attracting investors to the region, they benefit their economies more where they establish strong links with host country firms and become better integrated in the national and regional development strategies.
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Following a devastating first half of the year 2020 due to COVID-19, the global diamond industry started gaining positive momentum towards the end of the year as key markets entered into thanks giving and holiday season.
However Bruce Cleaver, Chief Executive Officer of De Beers Group cautioned that the industry is not out of the woods yet, citing prevailing challenges ahead into 2021.
The first half of 2020 was characterized by some of the worst challenges in history of global diamond trade.
The midstream, where rough diamonds are traded in wholesale and bulk to cutters and polishers, was for the most part of second quarter 2020, suffocated by international travel restrictions as countries responded to the contagious Corona Virus.
This halted movement of buyers and shipment of the rough goods , resulting in unprecedented decline of sales, in turn ballooning stockpiles as the upstream operations produced with little uptake by the midstream.
The situation was exacerbated by muted demand in the downstream where jewelry industries and tail end retailers closed to further curb the spread of COVID-19.
However towards the end of third quarter getting into the last quarter of the year, demand in both midstream and downstream started to steadily pick up as countries relaxed COVID-19 restrictions.
De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer by value started reporting significant recovery in sales in the sixth and seventh cycle, figures began to reflect an upswing in sentiment as well as increase in uptake of rough goods by midstream.
Sales for the sixth cycle amounted to $116 Million, following a sharp downturn in the previous cycles, significant jump was realized during the seventh cycle, registering $320 million, an over 175 % upswing when gauged against the proceeding cycle.
De Beers noted that diamond markets showed some continued improvement throughout August and into September as Covid-19 restrictions continued to ease in various locations.
“Manufacturers focused on meeting retail demand for polished diamonds, particularly in certain product areas, accordingly, we saw a recovery in rough diamond demand in the seventh sales cycle of the year, reflecting these retail trends, following several months of minimal manufacturing activity and disrupted demand patterns in all major markets,” said De Beers Chief Executive, Bruce Cleaver in September last year.
The diamond mining behemoth continued to register impressive sales in the eighth and ninth cycle signaling the industry could end the year on a positive note.
The momentum was indeed carried into the last cycle of the year. The value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auctions) for De Beers’ tenth sales cycle of 2020 amounted to $440 million, a significant increase from the 2019 tenth sales cycle value.
Against what seemed like a positive year end that would split into the New Year Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, however warned the industry not to count eggs before they hatch.
“Positive consumer demand for diamond jewellery resulting from the holiday season is supporting the continuation of retail orders for polished diamonds from the diamond industry’s midstream sector. This in turn supported steady demand for De Beers’s rough diamonds at our final sales cycle of 2020,” Cleaver had said in December.
In caution the De Beers Chief noted that “While the diamond industry ends the year on a positive note, we must recognise the risks that the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic presents to sector recovery both for the rest of this year and as we head into 2021.”
All segments of the supply chain were severely impacted by the global lockdown measures introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020.
After a strong US holiday season at the end of 2019, the rough diamond industry started 2020 positively as the midstream restocked and sentiment improved.
However, from February 2020, the Covid-19 outbreak began to have a significant impact on diamond jewellery retail sales and supply chain, with many jewelers suspending all polished purchases and/or delaying payments to their suppliers.
Rough diamond sales were materially affected by lockdowns and travel restrictions, delaying the shipping of rough diamonds into cutting and trading centers and preventing buyers from attending sales events.
These resulted in significant decline in total revenue for the business in the first six months of 2020. Total revenue decreased by 54% to $1.2 billion from $2.6 billion registered in the prior half year period ended 30 June 2019.
For the entire first six (6) months of the year 2020 De Beers Rough diamonds sales fell drastically to $1.0 billion from $2.3 billion in the prior H1 period ended 30 June 2019. Sales volumes decreased by 45% to 8.5 million carats compared to 15.5 million carats registered in the prior period.
Next month Minister of Finance & Economic Development, Dr Thapelo Matsheka will face the nation to deliver Botswana‘s first budget speech since COVID-19 pandemic put the world on devastating economic trajectory.
The pandemic that broke out in late 2019 in China has put the entire world on unprecedented chaos ,killing over P1 million people across the globe , shattering economies and almost rendering the year 2020 – a 12 months stretch of complete setback.
The 2021/22 budget speech will come at time when Botswana’s economy is still trying to emerge out of this.
National lockdowns and local travel restrictions have hit small medium enterprises hard, while international travel restrictions halted movement of both good and people, delivering by far some of the heaviest and worst catastrophic blows on the diamond industry and tourism sector, the likes of which this country has never seen before on its largest economic sectors.
As Minister Matsheka faces parliament next month, the reality on the ground is that Botswana’s national current cash resource, the Government Investment Account (GIA) is depleting at lightning speed.
On the other hand the COVID-19 economic mess is prevailing, the virus is reported to have taken a new dangerous shape of a deadly variant, spreading like fueled veld fire and causing some of the world’s super powers back to tough restrictions of lockdown.
According official figures released by Bank of Botswana, in October 2020 the GIA was running at P6 billion compared to the P18.3 billion held in the account in October 2019.
However reports indicate that the account could be currently holding just about P3 billion. The draw down from the GIA has been by exacerbated by declining diamond revenue, the country‘s largest cash cow. The sector was experiencing significant revenue decline even before COVID-19 struck.
When the National Development Plan (NDP) 11 commenced three (3) financial years ago, government announced that the first half of the NDP would run at a budget deficits.
This as explained by Minister of Finance in 2017 would be occasioned by decline in diamond revenue mainly due to government forfeiting some of its dividend from Debswana to fund mine expansion projects.
Cumulatively, since 2017/18 to 2019/20 financial year the budget deficit totaled to over P16 billion, of which was financed by both external and domestic borrowing and drawing down from government cash balances.
Taking into account the COVID-19 economic mess in 2020/21 financial year, the budget deficit could add up to P20 billion after revised figures.
Drawing down from government cash balances to finance these budget deficits meant significant withdrawals from the Government Investment Account, hence the near depletion of this buffer.
Meanwhile should Botswana’s revenue streams completely dry up to zero levels; the country would only have 11 months, before calling out for humanitarian aids and international donors, because foreign reserves are also on slow down.
During 2019, the foreign exchange reserves declined by 8.7 percent, from Seventy One Billion, Four Hundred Million Pula (P71.4 billion) in December 2018 to Sixty Five Billion, Three Hundred Million Pula (P65.3 billion) in December 2019.
The reserves declined further in 2020, falling by 2.3 percent to Sixty Three Billion, Seven Hundred Million Pula (P63.7 billion) in July 2020. This was revealed by President Masisi during State of the Nation Address in November last year.
The decrease was mainly due to foreign exchange outflows associated with Government obligations and economy-wide import requirements.
However latest statistics(October 2020) from Bank of Botswana reveal that Botswana’s foreign reserves are estimated at P58.4 billion, with government’s share of these funds significantly low.
Government has since introduced several measures to contain costs and control expenditure with the most recent intervention being the halting of recruitment in government departments and parastatals.
Furthermore, Value Added Tax has been signaled to go up from 12% to 14% in April this year with more hikes and service fees anticipated as government embarks on unprecedented domestic revenue mobilization.
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Botswana Stock Exchange listed hotel group Cresta Marakanelo Limited (“CML” or “the Company”) announced the signing of a lease agreement for Phakalane Golf Estate Hotel & Convention Centre, which will see CML extend its footprint by adding the 4 star Gaborone property to its already impressive portfolio. The agreement is subject to regulatory approvals therefore the effective date of the transaction is expected to be 1 February 2021.
CML brings a wealth of expertise to the lease and despite the difficult year for the tourism and hospitality industry, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, CML remains confident in the recovery of the sector and the need to invest in expanding the Company’s footprint.
CML Managing Director, Mr Mokwena Morulane commented: “Our continued efforts to improve our offerings, understand the market dynamics and modern day trends in the face of global challenges, means we are ready for the changing face of tourism and international travel, and this addition to the Cresta portfolio signals our confidence in the future.
“Despite the headwinds faced in 2020, Management has continued to focus on projects that enhance CML’s product offering such as the refurbishments at Cresta Mowana Safari Resort & Spa in the tourism capital Kasane and the ongoing refurbishment of Cresta Marang Residency in Francistown. The signing of the lease for the 4 star Phakalane Golf Estate Hotel & Conference Centre is a great addition to the Cresta portfolio and will unlock shareholder value in the future.
“We remain vigilant to value-enhancing opportunities including acquisitions or leases, after having reconsidered our pipeline against current and expected market conditions.”
Commenting on the lease agreement, the Chief Executive Officer, Mr S Parthiban, speaking on behalf of Phakalane noted; “No hotel chain holds as much expertise in the region, understands our local culture and tastes and what hospitality is about better than Cresta Marakanelo Limited. We believe that the renovations done to the property has made Phakalane Hotel and Convention Centre a unique product in Botswana and at par with international facilities. We believe that this lease will benefit not only us as Phakalane , but the market in general as Cresta has run hotels successfully in Botswana for over 30 years and is therefore expected to bring new offerings that appeal to the local and international markets as well as the residents and visitors to the Golf Estate. We look forward to a long mutually beneficial relationship with Cresta.”
CML like the rest of the tourism and hospitality industry and the entire value chain was hard hit by lockdowns with the surge of COVID-19. By investing during the low period, the company hopes to realise the future value of spending time in preparing for the new consumer dynamics and behaviour. Despite business interruptions as a result of a six-month long state of emergency and several lock-down periods declared by the Government of Botswana to limit the spread of COVID-19, the Company is starting to record an increase in occupancies, which bodes well for the recovery of the industry and the Company’s future prospects.
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WEG gas turbine generators on the way to offshore locations
The company will deliver generators and other electrical equipment to the FPSOs planned for Búzios and Mero oil fields off of Brazil’s east coast.
Turbogenerator for the Mero platform at WEG facility
An FPSO is a Floating Production Storage and Offloading ship. This is today´s most common method used to produce offshore crude oil and natural gas in deep waters. There are currently about 200 of these vessels in operation worldwide and they are a great fit for assets located far from the shore. Their key advantage is that they do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export the crude oil and gas. This is the case of Búzios V FPSOand Mero 2 FPSO. It will also be the case for other planned offshore projects off of Brazil’s coastline. Industry experts forecast more than 30 FPSOs will be awarded between today and 2023. Approximately half of them are to operate in Brazil.
WEG has been preparing to support this industry by making strategic investments during the last decade. This included the acquisition of Electric Machinery, a company founded in 1891 and based in Minneapolis (USA). This acquisition specifically added the 3600 rpm gas turbine generator technology to WEG’s ever expanding portfolio. WEG Electric Machinery has manufactured over 1000 of these generators since 1947. This represents over 20,000 MW of installed global capacity. Using this extensive knowhow, WEG has developed the ST20 2-pole (3600 rpm) generator. Búzios V FPSO will feature 2-pole generators made in Brazil. This is certainly an advantage given the local content regulation, but WEG is proud to say that the solution has proven to be competitive for projects worldwide. WEG’s participation for Buzios V FPSO includes four 40MVA 2-pole generators. These Brazilian manufactured generators will be shipped to our customer’s location, also in Brazil, where the gas turbines will be packaged.
Building 4-pole (1800 rpm) generators in Brazil for O&G offshore projects is something WEG has been performing for decades and the company has over 50 units in operation offshore. The latest WEG project includes four 36MVA 4-pole generators for the Mero 2 FPSO. WEG’s extensive experience in delivering more than 800 x 4-pole generators translates into increased safety and reliability for our customers.
In addition to these latest eight gas turbine generators, WEG is supplying over 60 MV (medium voltage) motors as large as 13,000kW and most of the LV (low voltage) motors for the two FPSOs. The mechanical applications include gas export compressors, gas injection compressors, VRU compressors, water injection pumps, flowline circulations pumps and SRU pumps among other services. WEG has also been selected to supply three MV variable speed drives (VSD’s) for pump motors on one of the projects.
“With a solid track record in delivering electrical equipment to FPSOs, WEG is very well positioned to serve our clients with competitive solutions, especially in the current market environment with the oil price hitting the lowest mark in decades” says Elder Stringari, International Director of WEG. All this, with strict adherence to the most demanding international quality standards and delivering the market’s best offshore after-sales support in Brazil.
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Record $280 Million Judgement Against Schnitzer
Schnitzer Lawyer Blames Victim For Fatal Crash In Bizarre Closing
Robbie Watson,
A record $280 million dollar judgement was handed down by a Muscogee County Jury Friday in response to a fatal truck crash that killed five members of one family in East Alabama.
Attorneys from Butler, Wooten and Peak told the Jury this case was about justice for Judy Madere. She was the mother, grandmother, and twin sister of the passengers who died next to her on Alabama Highway 80 that day in July of 2016.
The civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the Madere family was also to some extent about the almighty dollar and sending a message to large transportation companies that if you don’t follow the rules and you kill somebody you will pay in a big way.
Brandon Peak told the jury here in Columbus where the trucking company is located that Kenneth Cathey and Schnitzer Steel were asleep at the wheel the day their driver slammed head on into the Nissan Rogue carrying three generations from one family.
The company he said had not followed proper training and safety policies and took no corrective action after their driver killed five people and nobody seemed to care, Peak said.
“And they were trying to wear ’em out. They wanted them to give so they wouldn’t have to come into court and go through the pain of having to relive this incident over and over again but they picked the wrong two people,” Peak said during his closing arguments.
The attorney for Schnitzer, Robert Shannon told the jury the family’s lawyer was “good at exploitation” and then shocking even seasoned court observers proceeded to blame the victim for the fatal crash despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It was an egregious and ineffective charge that wasn’t lost on the jury.
“Do I want to come into court you know and put this family through more when I say here’s evidence that Carrie Ann Jones was responsible for the life of her mother, her aunt and her children,” Shannon said to the jury.
The family’s attorney, Brandon Peak veered briefly from his prepared remarks to address the accusation.
“Ive been doing this a long time and I’ve really never seen anything more underhanded that’s occurred than that right there. You notice one word you’ve not heard come out of their mouths at all? Sorry. Who has looked at Larry Madere who lost his wife of 42 years and said Larry, I ‘m sorry. Who’s looked at Anjanette who lost her mother and said I’m sorry? I’m sorry for what your family’s been through? Nobody.” Peak said.
The jury returned with the largest judgement in Muscogee County history, $280 million for compensatory and punitive damages against Schnitzer Steel and the truck driver, Kenneth Cathey.
Schnitzer Southeast, the local company the driver worked for issued a statement late Friday night saying in part “We were hoping for a fair and reasonable outcome for all parties, unfortunately we believe the jury’s verdict has significant flaws, and we plan to appeal it.”
The truck driver is still facing criminal charges where the fatal crash occurred in Russell County. Kenneth Cathey was indicted for five counts of Criminal Negligent Homicide and the case is on the trial docket there later this year.
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Tags: Butler Wooten Peak, Carrie Jones, Jaxson Jones, Judy Madere, Kenneth Cathey, Robert Shannon, Schnitzer Southeast, Schnitzer Steele Trucking, Trinity Jones, Trudy Hebert
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Lana Del Rey Confirms She’s Dating “Hot Cop” Sean Larkin Over Grammys Weekend
by Brooke Marine
Everyone knows that Grammys weekend is never just about the awards and accolades handed out to recording artists—it's about showing up in a fly look and possibly even making your debut as a couple on the red carpet.
At least, the latter was the case this year for Lana Del Rey. Grammy weekend was an opportunity for the nominee to confirm to her fans (and casual listeners) that yes, she is, in fact, dating that "hot cop" you weren't so sure about.
Del Rey, who was nominated for Album of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2020 Grammys, arrived arm in arm with Sean Larkin, a police officer whose Instagram bio reads "Full time popo 👮🏻Part time crossfitter," at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala on January 25. She also showed up at the official Grammy Awards ceremony the following evening with Larkin by her side.
Lana Del Rey and Sean Larkin attend the Pre-Grammy Gala and Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Sean "Diddy" Combs, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 25, 2020, in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
The red-carpet debut comes just four months after paparazzi caught the singer and Larkin strolling in Central Park. Del Rey did not publicly acknowledge the relationship until she shared a snap of herself with Larkin in December, causing her fans to work themselves into a tizzy over the fact that she's dating a silver-fox cop from Oklahoma. (Larkin, however, has been sharing photos of himself with Del Rey on his own account for months.)
Larkin—who goes by the nickname Sticks, for some reason—isn't a stranger to the limelight, however. He is an analyst for an Emmy-winning documentary series on A&E TV called Live PD and hosts A&E TV's PD Cam.
At the end of the day, though, no one should be surprised that Del Rey's man is ultimately just a normie. She said it herself, when she opened up in a 2019 Billboard interview about the process of writing her Grammy-nominated album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, that she identifies strongly with basic culture: "When the writing has got me, I’m on its schedule. But when it leaves me alone, I’m just at Starbucks, talking shit all day."
Related: Is Lana Del Rey Dating This Hot Cop?
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Archana Pyati December 14, 2020
WorkRise has awarded just over $2 million in grants for research on accelerating economic mobility and advancing racial and gender equity for workers in the US labor market, particularly those in low-wage jobs and occupations. (Read the official announcement.)
The nine research projects that will receive funding reflect WorkRise’s commitment to developing evidence that will inform decisionmaking and drive action toward rebuilding the labor market in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recession. The projects employ a diverse set of approaches and methods, including those that analyze the effectiveness of new or established policies, practices, or programs in supporting labor market opportunity and mobility. Several will generate original data analyses and datasets that illuminate trends, yield actionable insights, and deepen our understanding of disparities and equity gaps in labor market experiences and outcomes for workers.
The project topics represent the core pillars of WorkRise’s emerging research agenda, including macroeconomic trends and federal policy; employer practices; worker voice, power, and representation; workforce skills and training; job search and matching strategies; and supportive services outside work that facilitate labor market success. This inaugural slate of projects is the first set of awards WorkRise will make annually to support pathbreaking research on solutions to accelerate economic mobility and build a more equitable labor market.
These are the nine funded projects and their principal investigators:
How Does Federal and State Wage and Employment Policy Shape Racial Disparities in Earnings and Economic Mobility? Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Claire Montialoux, Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
How Does Short-Term Compensation Shape Labor Market Outcomes? Till von Wachter, Professor of Economics and Faculty Director, California Policy Lab, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); and Robert Santillano, Research Director, California Policy Lab, UCLA
Using Matched-Pair Testing to Uncover Unlawful Employment Practices through the Use of Temporary Staffing Sheila Maddali and Chris Williams, Co-Directors, National Legal Advocacy Network; and Marc Bendick, Jr., Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc.; and the Equal Rights Center
Schedule Control at IKEA: How Does Worker Schedule Control Impact Employee Economic Security and Mobility? Daniel Schneider, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and Kristen Harknett, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Pursuit Fellowship David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America; Matthew Notowidigdo, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and Jukay Hsu, Cofounder and CEO, Pursuit
Creating Paths for STARs: Increasing Mobility Opportunities for Workers without BA Degrees Papia Debroy, Vice President of Insights, Opportunity@Work; and Peter Q. Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
How Does Task Assignment Increase Workers’ Earnings Mobility? Nathan Wilmers, Sarofim Career Development Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; and Letian Zhang, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Impacts of Extending Child Care Subsidies for Education and Training Gina Adams and Linda Giannarelli, Senior Fellows, Urban Institute
Cash and Near-Cash Safety Net Programs and Labor Market Outcomes Bradley Hardy, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University; James Ziliak, Founding Director, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research and University Research Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky; and Charles Hokayem, Research Affiliate, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
WorkRise received 343 applications for funding in response to a request for proposal issued in May 2020. Of those applications, 16 were invited to submit full proposals, which were reviewed by WorkRise’s leadership board and staff as well as external subject matter experts. Nine projects received approval from the leadership board on November 23, 2020.
The selection criteria considered the project’s relevance to priority topics identified by the WorkRise leadership board, potential impact on policy and practice, feasibility, methodology, timeliness, and whether the project furthers understanding of racial/ethnic, gender, age, and geographic inequities. The selection process also considered diversity across multiple demographic dimensions, including diversity of the research teams, institutional leadership, and institutional types.
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Police officials, Mayor Lombardi named in North Providence complaint
by: Annie Shalvey
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Lieutenant Diana Perez, who has been with the North Providence Police Department for more than 12 years, is now filing a complaint against the police chief and the town for “discrimination and retaliation based on her gender.”
Lt. Perez filed a petition with the Rhode Island Human Rights Commission on July 8. On Tuesday, Eyewitness News obtained the eight-page complaint from Perez’s attorney. The documents contain accusations of a hostile work environment, discrimination, abuse and harassment.
The petition alleges both Police Chief Christopher Pelagio and Capt. Charles Davey made inappropriate comments about Perez’s physical appearance.
Eyewitness News also obtained a complaint sent to North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi in April that details several alleged inappropriate incidents – including one instance where Chief Pelagio told Perez, “I like big butts and I cannot lie.”
As Public Safety Director, Mayor Lombardi was also named as a defendant.
“We had hired an attorney, and outside third party attorney, to investigate this situation,” he said. “That’s where we’re at this point in time.”
Eyewitness News spoke with Chief Pelagio over the phone. He said the allegations are all a ploy by the police union to get him fired. He said he’s confident the independent investigation will clear him of any wrongdoing.
Police union president Dennis Stone sent Eyewitness News a statement, saying in part:
“I have an obligation to protect her [Perez] … It has nothing to do with the union or anyone trying to remove the police chief.”
Mayor Lombardi said he is skeptical the allegations are true. He said he approached Perez about the situation – she did not contact him first.
“We have a contentious police union that continually tries to throw a mess at the wall and hopes that something will stick,” Lombardi said. “Their goal is to remove the police chief. I will tell you this: if there’s any wrongdoing that’s uncovered, I will deal with it harshly. But I can’t allow the union to run the police department.”
The police union went before the North Providence Town Council at a meeting Tuesday night. On the agenda, it said there would be a discussion and possible vote concerning “serious issues” members of the union are facing.
According to Eyewitness News crews present at the meeting, the town council rejected the union’s request to have the Rhode Island State Police investigation the town’s police department.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) - After wrapping up a prolific three-sport career at South Kingstown High School in June, Faith Hutchins planned to go to the Taft School in Connecticut for a post grad year to focus on which sport she would pick to play in college. But with the pandemic in full force, Hutchins opted to stay home and work out on her own. With plenty of time to herself, Hutchins decided to commit to the University of Rhode Island. The goalkeeper will begin life as a Division I student-athlete on Monday afternoon.
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Illinois ranks third among ‘Most Moved Out States’ in 2020, study says
Updated: Jan. 7, 2021 at 9:38 PM CST
By WIFR Newsroom
Nearly twice as many people moved out of Illinois last year as those who moved in, according to the latest migration study from moving company United Van Lines, ranking the Land of Lincoln as No. 3 among “Most Moved From States” in 2020.
Search for missing Byron man continues after police investigation halts
The family of a missing Byron man is asking the Stateline for help in locating Brandon Cuddy.
Gov. Pritzker calls for impeachment of President Donald Trump after Capitol riots
“I don’t make a statement like this lightly: Two weeks is too long for Donald Trump to remain in office, where he can continue to incite more untold violence.
Gov. Pritzker: Illinois regions can possibly move out of Tier 3 mitigations next week
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 12:58 PM CST
Pritzker says starting on January 15, 2021, any region that has met the COVID-19 metrics for reducing mitigations will be able to move away from the current Tier 3 mitigations, which have been in effect statewide since November 20, 2020.
IDPH: More than 7K new COVID-19 cases, 139 additional deaths Wednesday
The previous mask mandate established through an emergency rule to the Control of Communicable Disease Code expired on January 3, 2021. However, a subsequent emergency rule was filed January 4, 2021 and is in effect for 150 days.
Paramedic gets 13-year prison sentence for assaulting woman
A central Illinois paramedic was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while she was in an ambulance.
1 Illinois county allows indoor dining to governor’s chagrin
According to the Sangamon County Department of Public Health, bars and restaurants can reopen as of Sunday for indoor service at 25% capacity.
Illinois’ minimum wage set to increase to $11 in 2021
Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 at 5:00 PM CST
By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
The state's minimum wage takes another tick upward on January 1, hitting $11 for hourly workers, $6.60 for those who also earn tips and youth workers bump up to $8.50.
Christmas tree in Illinois comprised of 10K recycled bottles
Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 at 12:01 PM CST
Artist Jason Mack helped lead the team and calls it a “work of love” that has prompted thousands of visitors. Workers would put crushed green-bottle glass into a propane-heated mobile glass furnace and would then add it to the tree.
Illinois’ leisure and hospitality industry suffers second-worst month ever
This comes as Pritzker has floated new tax hikes on businesses and individuals, such as raising the state’s flat tax to raise more revenue.
COVID-19 vaccination requirements in the workplace
As the coronavirus vaccine makes its way to the Stateline, local employment law attorneys discuss how its arrival could make waves in the workplace.
Local environmentalists talk discarding masks properly
With hopes of the coronavirus vaccine bringing an end to mask wearing, talk turns to what happens with all those cloth coverings.
Illinois State Police sees major reduction in DNA/biology backlog since March 2019
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 6:47 PM CST
The race to bust through the state's DNA backlog hits new heights and law enforcement leaders see big potential for the future of Illinois forensics.
Illinois state Fire Marshal stresses safety when decorating for holidays
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 11:16 AM CST
More than one-third of home decoration fires are started by candles. The NFPA also reports that US fire departments responded to an average of 780 home structure fires per year that began with decorations between 2013-2017.
Holiday travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
Updated: Nov. 24, 2020 at 6:22 PM CST
With health experts discouraging people from traveling for the holidays, millions of Americans are still going ahead with their plans as safely as possible.
Exploring new Tier 3 resurgence mitigations
As the state of Illinois begins its tier three mitigation restrictions today, we break down some of the biggest changes you can expect this Thanksgiving.
More than 11k new COVID-19 cases, 116 deaths announced Saturday in Illinois
On Friday, IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said there was a delay in death data reporting on Friday Nov. 13,. Therefore, 66 deaths that occurred Friday are being reported with Saturday’s total.
Gov. Pritzker tests negative for COVID-19 after possible exposure
Updated: Nov. 7, 2020 at 4:28 PM CST
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and staff who attended the meeting Monday where they were exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 have tested negative.
Local educators react to Illinois State Board of Education’s 2020 Report Card
Updated: Oct. 30, 2020 at 6:55 PM CDT
The Illinois State Board of Education unveils its 2020 Report Card and the coronavirus pandemic left its mark.
Illinois Gaming Board explains delay in Rockford casino license application
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 11:24 AM CDT
In its monthly meeting, the Illinois Gaming Board discussed the reasons why approval for casino licenses in several cities, including Rockford, is delayed.
Illinois announces highest ever daily COVID-19 case count with 6,161 positive tests, 63 deaths
The daily case count is now the most cases Illinois has ever reported in one day since the start of the pandemic.
Breaking it Down: Examining the Progressive Tax Amendment
Under the proposed graduated structure, six new rates, ranging from 4.75 to 7.95 percent, would tax people based on how much they earn, rather than one flat rate.
Report: Illinois ranks 11th in the country for vehicle collisions with animals
According to a new report from State Farm, Illinois ranks #11 in the country for vehicle collisions with animals.
Illinois adult-use cannabis sales in August top $63 million
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 2:47 PM CDT
A total of 1,359,311 items were sold for the month. This comes after July 2020 saw just under $61 million in sales.
Gov. Pritzker warns of budget cuts if no federal assistance arrives
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 12:42 PM CDT
Pritzker said he has sent notice to all cabinet directors to prepare for the possibility of cuts of at least 5 percent for the current fiscal year as well was to submit a potential fiscal year 2022 spending outlay with a reduction in appropriations of 10 percent.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker visits Rockford to announce federal grant for unemployed workers
Governor J.B. Pritzker makes a stop in the Forest City to unveil a federal grant designed to help thousands of unemployed workers.
IHDA Emergency Mortgage Assistance online application opens
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 6:27 PM CDT
A new assistance program gives Illinois homeowners struggling from the impacts of COVID-19 a helping hand in paying their mortgage.
Illinois announces 1,740 new cases of COVID-19, 27 additional deaths
The Illinois Department of Public Health announces 1,740 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois along with 27 deaths on Thursday.
Gov. Pritzker announces emergency rental assistance
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 10:41 AM CDT
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) announced that applications for rental assistance are now available for renters who have lost a job or income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Freeport School District welcomes prospective educators through Golden Apple Accelerators Program
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 6:52 PM CDT
As the coronavirus pandemic impacts the way education will look for the foreseeable future, the Golden Apple Foundation is partnering with schools across the state to address an issue plaguing the system: teacher shortages.
Illinois business and healthcare coalition encourages using face masks to stop spread of COVID-19
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 5:46 PM CDT
A statewide business and health coalition speaks out, encouraging Illinoisans to use face masks while out and about.
Restructuring the Regions: Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveils new three-tier plan to help in fight against COVID-19
In his first COVID briefing since the start of phase four, Governor J.B. Pritzker lays out a new plan to keep Illinois on the right track of combating the coronavirus.
Kinzinger staying cautious while Illinois reopens
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 3:45 PM CDT
16th District Representative, Adam Kinzinger, paid a visit to Northern Illinois Food Bank to see how the community market has been adjusting to the changes caused by the novel Coronavirus disease.
Chicago’s July 4 weekend ends with 14 killed, 63 wounded
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 9:58 AM CDT
One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 14 people fatally shot — including a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — and 63 more wounded, despite a concerted effort by the police department that included an additional 1,200 officers on the streets.
Illinois announces 639 new COVID-19 cases, six deaths
The new figures bring the total to 147,251 cases and 7,020 deaths so far in Illinois. The six deaths are the lowest in a 24-hour period since March 25, when three deaths were announced.
Illinois motorists won’t be fined for unpaid tolls in new reform package
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 9:49 AM CDT
The Illinois Tollway today announced TOLLING 2020, a comprehensive tolling reform package featuring a significant reduction to the initial costs faced by motorists when tolls are left unpaid. The measures also include steep reductions in fines for those with outstanding violations while formalizing the COVID-19 pandemic relief period during which no violations will be assessed for unpaid tolls.
Video gambling in Illinois to return on July 1, gaming board says
Updated: Jun. 25, 2020 at 3:56 PM CDT
Casino and video gaming operations were indefinitely suspended on March 16, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Daily COVID-19 cases, deaths in Illinois decreasing from peak; 894 new cases announced Thursday
At a press conference in Chicago Wedneday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state health officials announce 894 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 41 additional deaths. The list of deaths include a Winnebago County man in his 80s, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Unemployment rates up, jobs down as Illinois moves into Phase 4 of reopening plan
Updated: Jun. 25, 2020 at 12:32 PM CDT
The number of nonfarm jobs decreased over-the-year in May in all fourteen Illinois metropolitan areas, with six metro areas at record low payrolls, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES).
Gov. Pritzker announces $50 million to kick off state's largest-ever broadband expansion
Launching the state’s largest-ever broadband expansion initiative, Governor JB Pritzker announced $50 million in Connect Illinois grants to 28 projects touching every region of the state.
Wisconsin state senator shares video of alleged attack
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM CDT
A Democratic state senator from the Milwaukee area posted video from Tuesday night’s protest that he says shows the moments leading up to an attack that left him injured and suffering from a possible concussion.
26 additional deaths, 462 new cases of COVID-19 in Ill.
That brings the state total to 137,224 cases and 6,671 deaths.
IDNR urges boaters to drive sober on water
As summer heats up and Illinoisans hit the water to celebrate Independence Day, conservation police officers have already made 17 arrests for operating under the influence.
Due to virus, dads mark Father’s Day from a distance
Because of the terrible toll taken by the coronavirus on older people in nursing homes and other institutions, the 93-year-old Navy veteran and his loved ones had to stay on opposite sides of a plexiglass barrier and talk by phone at the assisted-living home outside San Francisco where he is a resident.
IDES securing unemployment benefit payment funds
Illinois joins eight other states who have either been approved to borrow or have begun to borrow money from the federal government to continue to fulfill unemployment benefit payments.
Ill. Phase 4 guidelines now available
By Hope Salman
All four regions of the state are currently on track to move into Phase 4 on June 26 as the state continues to make progress in reducing new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The average seven-day statewide case positivity rate has fallen to just 2.5 percent as of June 20, according to Gov. Pritzker's office.
Ill. blood centers in need of donation drive hosts
With COVID restrictions being lifted for elective procedures and patients returning in mass for medical treatments, surgeries have spiked and blood centers across the state are struggling to keep up with the demand for blood.
Group: Remove statue of Illinois’ 3rd governor, slave owner
Nearly 500 people have joined a Facebook group that supports petitioning the city of Edwardsville to tear down a Ninian Edwards statue and also rename a plaza with his moniker, according to The Edwardsville Intelligencer.
Illinois’ Lake County starting up weddings again, virtually
The 19th Judicial Circuit Court suspended marriages and civil unions in March to protect the health of the public but it was scheduled to start officiating weddings and civil unions — virtually — on Monday.
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RudeHead
Comics Other Universes Savage Dragon Universe
Role: Character (Villainous)
The oddly-named Rudehead is a monstrous, aggressive mutant. He’s not a bad choice for a villainous super-brawler.
He was seen in several Savage Dragon stories, starting in 2000.
Real Name: Unrevealed.
Marital Status: Single.
Known Relatives: None.
Group Affiliation: The Sky-Riders.
Base Of Operations: Danger Zone west of Chicago.
Height: Over 7’ Weight: Unrevealed Skin: Purple
Eyes: Six red eyes. Hair: None
RudeHead has incredible strength, the extent of which has yet to be fully gauged. He is also exceptionally tough and resistant to most types of attacks, and moves fast and viciously.
The Danger Zone
The Danger Zone is a vast, and extremely dangerous, area due West of Chicago.
A remnant from the time Sebastian Khan ruled the Earth, the Danger Zone is a lawless land. It has become a refuge to mutants, freaks, and outcasts. The zone actually is very similar to a typical post-Apocalyptic landscape from DC Comics’ Kamandi series.
The United States government has hired Dragon to help clean up the area. Progress has been slow due to the high concentration of freaks that live there.
RudeHead is one of those freaks as a member of the gang named the Sky-Riders.
When Dragon first arrived in the Savage New World, he was attacked by numerous threats. All of these were a complete mystery to him. A gang of super powered beings lured the Dragon into their home where their strongest member, RudeHead, savagely attacked the hero. But he was defeated in battle.
While RudeHead was unconscious, many of his fellow gang members were consumed by a giant spider.
RudeHead also had a run-in with either Mighty Man III (Chelsea Nirvana) or Mighty Man V (Billy Berman) as he was causing all kinds of troubles in the Danger Zone. Defeated, he was brought to Chicago where the police were threateningly told to lock him in.
Since the police department lacked evidence of any criminal activities connected to RudeHead they probably had to let him go, at the very latest as soon as the evil Mighty Man lost his powers. It is assumed that RudeHead returned to the Danger Zone to continue his preying gang activities.
RudeHead is a huge, muscular monster-like man. He has purple skin and four fingers and toes.
His oblong head has a diamond-shaped forehead, a huge gaping mouth with large teeth and a total of six red, circular eyes set in two vertical lines of three eyes on each side of his head. Both his hands and feet have narrow, but long nails.
RudeHead is naked except for a pair of green shorts, an odd belt with brown pellets and the lower legs wrapped in green bands.
RudeHead is a dangerous bully. He is a good team player and plays the role of the big, bad man of the Sky-Riders. He seems to protect his gang and their interests by attacking any non-member.
In fact, the gang’s main activities seem to be physical combat against the weaker, possibly with the motive to rob them.
He seems to use full, lethal force on all occasions.
RudeHead does not seem to be able to talk.
Int: 02 Wil: 02 Min: 02 Occupation: Bully
Inf: 03 Aur: 03 Spi: 05 Resources {or Wealth}: N/A
Growth: 01
Growth is Always On (-1) and Already Factored In.
Martial Artist: 07
Area Knowledge (The Danger Zone west of Chicago), Lightning Reflexes.
The Sky-Riders (High).
MPR (Mute), Strange Appearance (Huge humanoid monster with six eyes).
By Dr. Peter S Piispanen.
Source of Character: Savage Dragon comics.
Helper(s): www.brotherhoodofthefin.net (defunct).
Savage Dragon vol. 15 – This savage world
Reprise Saboteur
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Toddler shot in New Orleans East
Alabama crushes Ohio State to win national championship, 52-24
Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith had 12 catches for 215 yards and three touchdowns -- in the first 29 minutes.
Author: RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla — DeVonta Smith was uncoverable, Najee Harris unstoppable and Mac Jones impeccable. With a performance that was both surgical and explosive, No. 1 Alabama won the College Football Playoff national championship game 52-24 against No. 3 Ohio State on Monday night.
The final game of a college football season in a pandemic, a season that was uncertain to be played in the summer and filled with disruptions in the fall, ended in the most predictable fashion: Alabama (13-0) as national champion for the sixth time in the last 12 years under coach Nick Saban.
For Saban, it was career title No. 7 overall, breaking a tie with Alabama great Paul “Bear” Bryant for the most by a major college coach.
Ohio State (7-1) just couldn't keep up. Justin Fields, playing what might be his last game before heading to the NFL, passed for 194 yards and a touchdown. Whether Fields was 100% after taking a brutal hit to the side during his brilliant semifinal performance against Clemson was hard to know for sure.
RELATED: Alabama Heisman winner DeVonta Smith leaves game after hand injury
RELATED: Ohio State running back Trey Sermon hospitalized after injury on first carry of College Football Playoff National Championship
On the Buckeyes' first drive, they lost star running back Trey Sermon to an injury and in a game they needed to be running at top speed, facing one of great offenses in recent history, they sputtered too much. Ohio State has never allowed more points in a bowl game.
Fans can debate which team in the Saban dynasty is best, but none will be more memorable than this group. The Tide finished perfect during a season that could not have been further from it as COVID-19 forced teams into quarantines and endless testing and uncertainty every single week with games played in mostly empty stadiums.
Only about 15,000 fans were at Hard Rock Stadium, capacity 65,326, to see the last magnificent performance of Smith's college career.
The Heisman Trophy winner had catches for 12 catches for 215 yards and three touchdowns, all in the first half as the Crimson Tide bolted out to a 35-17 lead.
Credit: Wilfredo Lee/AP
Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith runs past Ohio State cornerback Marcus Williamson during the first half of an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Using an array of motions and misdirections, outgoing offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian had Ohio State heads spinning trying to track down Smith.
Sometimes it was simpler than that. On Smith's third touchdown, he lined up in the slot, the closest to the line of three receivers on the left side. Smith cut quickly to the middle of the field and suddenly was matched up against a linebacker, whom he left in the dust for a 42-yard score with 41 seconds left in the second quarter.
Smith, who finished his freshman season by catching the 2017 national championship winning touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa, ended his Alabama career as the leading career receiver in Southeastern Conference history. He was the offensive player of Monday night's game.
As for Sarkisian, he is on his way to Texas as the head coach. Longhorns fans had to have liked what they saw from their new playcaller. If only he could bring Smith and his fellow Heisman contenders to Austin.
Jones, who finished third in the Heisman voting, was 36 for 45 for a CFP championship-record 464 yards and five touchdowns, operating behind a line that had him rarely feeling rushed. Harris had 158 yards from scrimmage on 29 touches, scoring three times to give him an SEC record 30 touchdowns this season.
Smith hardly played in the second half, leaving with what an injury. He returned to the sideline in the fourth quarter with his left hand wrapped to the wrist, two fingers taped together, and wearing a Heisman mask.
Alabama hardly missed him and cracked 50 early in the fourth quarter when Harris went in untouched from a yard out.
Smith and Harris surprised some by returning to college after last season for their senior years.
Boy, did it turn out to be worthwhile. Along with Jones, another member of that 2017 recruiting class, they will leave Alabama as the leaders of a team that managed to make an arduous march from through the pandemic look easy.
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Pabulum Café
The Singing Café
Pabulum Sports and Leisure Club
Pabulum Dementia Friendly Garden
The Pabulum Picture Palace
The Monday-Monday Club
Information Leaflet
Volunteering with Wymondham Dementia Support Group
Sample Volunteer Agreement
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Pabulum Picture Palace
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The Pabulum Picture Palace – Spring 2015
March 5, 2015 - News
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‘Spring’ with Pabulum
November 12, 2014 - News
A month in the life of Wymondham Pabulum Café
Tags: Alzheimer's, Dementia
WDSG on BBC Look East
October 26, 2014 - News
There was a BBC Look East report on the Wymondham Dementia Support Group on 16th October 2014.
Tags: BBC, Media, Report, Television
Dianne Fernee
October 3, 2014 - News
The Trustees of Wymondham Dementia Support Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Dianne Fernee as the Organiser of their services, namely, Wymondham Pabulum Café, The Singing Café and The Pabulum Picture Palace.
Norfolk’s first “dementia friendly” town
May 22, 2014 - News
BBC Radio Norfolk broadcasted live from Wymondham in a 3 hour special on 21st May 2014.
Tags: BBC, Media, Radio, Report
CD recording for Wymondham Dementia Support Group as part of its 5th birthday celebrations
April 3, 2014 - News
A dementia support group based in Norfolk has recruited the help of a recording company to help produce its first CD.
Members of the Singing Café, which is run by Wymondham Dementia Support Group, recorded an 18-song CD with Norwich-based Ashwood Recording Studios.
Wymondham Pabulum Café celebrated its 5th birthday on March 7th, 2014
March 10, 2014 - News
Andy Pandy, disguised as Town Mayor, Dianne Fermee, cut the cake and we also celebrated ‘Time for a Cuppa’ a national campaign organised by Dementia UK to raise funds for Admiral Nurses. A raffle to support this fund raised £130 and the main prize, a wine and food hamper, was won by Jim Rump.
Diagnosed with dementia when young
February 6, 2014 - News
Approximately 800,000 people in the UK have dementia. The vast majority of those are diagnosed after the age of 65 – but around 17,000 people have been diagnosed with dementia in their early 60s, 50s, 40s and, in some cases, 30s. On Tuesday 4 February at 10am Victoria Derbyshire will broadcast from the country’s only dedicated day support service for young people with dementia. It’s called the Young Onset Dementia Centre and throughout the programme we’ll hear from some of the people who use its services and their family and friends.
MP helps to make music at Wymondham singing café
A MP received an update on a town’s dementia friendly status when he visited a singing café
Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman attended Wymondham Dementia Support Group’s café today, which supports around 30 people with dementia and their carers. The group has been running for the last four years and the singing café delivers music therapy to help improve the health and wellbeing of its members.
Preparing the way for Dementia Friendly Communities in Norfolk
September 11, 2013 - News
On the evening of Thursday 12 September, Wymondham Dementia Support Group and Age UK Norfolk are holding an event to celebrate the beginning of new project which will see the local community come together to support Wymondham to become a Dementia Friendly Town.
© 2021 Wymondham Dementia Support Group. Charity No. 1143347
Closure of Pabulum Cafés due to latest lockdown
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Men's Health UK October 2020
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STUART HERITAGE AUTHOR By disrupting our work lives, lockdown has redefined the role of the “provider”. Heritage unpacks the baggage of male careerism p41 THE MOUNTAIN STRONGMAN Record-smashing strongman and GoT icon Hafþór Björnsson explains why technique is crucial to raising the bar on your goals p108 AMY MORIN PSYCHOTHERAPIST Mental resilience is key to an easier life, but first you need to understand your emotions. Morin and others offer their insight and advice p86 WINSTON MORGAN TOXICOLOGIST Why is COVID-19 more lethal to BAME men than their white peers? Morgan makes the case that systemic racism, not biology, is to blame p50 DREW PRICE NUTRITIONIST More than just a green garnish, salads can be adapted for any training goal. Price shows how to toss up some matchless fitness fuel p72 ROBIN CARHARTHARRIS NEUROSCIENTIST In our rundown of the most influential men in health, Carhart-Harris explains the…
Over my 20-odd years in magazine journalism, never has the concept of a long-lead title felt so anachronistic. I’m writing this on a scorching evening in late July. You’ll be reading it in the last weeks of September, possibly in early October. I have an ice-cold cider on the go, following a sweaty, shirtless run. Meanwhile, there’s a good chance that you’re wearing a jumper. This much was ever thus. We’re used to writing about Christmas in autumn and summer in spring. It’s not usually too much of a stretch. We have a fair idea that, in the build-up to sunnier months, you’d like to shift some timber. Come January, we know that you’ll be looking for ways to reboot your mind, body and soul. But right now, I couldn’t tell…
for marine muscle, you need to go deep
The Japanese have grown and eaten wakame seaweed for centuries, but it has yet to drift into the UK mainstream. Our loss: studies show that the marine algae is swimming with nutrients that could help you gain strength and shed fat, fast. Wakame, which you’ve already tried if you’ve ever slurped down a hot bowl of miso soup, deserves to be a staple outside the sushi bar. According to a study in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, it contains fucoxanthin, a carotenoid that promotes fat oxidation. It’s also a source of hesperetin, a flavonoid that stimulates the formation of muscle tissue and provides a boost to bone health as you age. It’s little surprise then, that when scientists at the Korea Food Research Institute studied the effect of wakame on mice over…
bulk up your big arms workout
Yes, lockdown was meant to be the excuse you needed to stay at home and focus on yourself. But we’d bet that, like most of us, despite your early enthusiasm, stocking your home gym and tuning into Instagram Live workouts, you’re still not quite the Adonis you hoped to be. Fear not – the “kettlebell two-hands anyhow” fuses a biceps curl with the functional deep squats that you need to ensure that mobility and totalbody strength are not sacrificed on the altar of T-shirt muscle. “With the anyhow, everything works through the whole range of motion,” explains Men’s Health fitness editor Andrew Tracey. “Your shoulders, back, legs, biceps – your entire body has to maintain tension throughout the rep. “Think of each cycle as an individual rep,” he continues. “Aim for quality: I…
01 GUT FEEDINGS Among (several) other things, 2020 will be remembered as the year of sourdough. Stuck at home, many of us tried our hand at baking the notoriously tricky loaf. Whatever the outcome, it’s worth persevering, says Matthew Jones, founder of breadahead.com. While supermarket loaves are likely to lack probiotic effects, home-baked sourdough preserves the benefits of the good bacteria in the starter. To earn your crust, first you need to get that dough. A WHEAT It’s no secret that wholewheat wins out in the health stakes, but there’s far more to brown bread than its high fibre content. According to one British Medical Journal review, three daily servings of wholegrains can lower your risk of heart disease by 22%. B RYE About as Scandi as stripped-back interior design, rye keeps your calorie count…
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01 SHAKE ON IT First, a clarification: this is a rest day, not a cheat day, and the next 24 hours will be geared towards recovery, not indulgence. So, upon waking after eight hours without food, you need to fuel your body with all the building blocks it’ll need to make gains (or losses) after a strong week. A breakfast shake with protein powder, nut butter, spinach leaves, berries and a banana will cover all your macro and micro needs. It tastes great, too. 02 GET MOVING A power yoga flow might be a stretch too far right now, but morning movement is crucial. Most of us sleep in the foetal position, which can be just as damaging as bad desk posture and lead to muscle shortening, exacerbating DOMS. Ten minutes of mobility…
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At the fruitful age of 19 years old I moved to Paris to study at the school of a notorious and famous master clown and pedagogue: Phillipe Gaulier.
This man was nothing like I had ever seen. He was small, round and could've been anywhere from 55 to 75 years old. I couldn't tell, and never found out. Age was a non issue for me back then. He had thick rimmed glasses, wild, shaggy grey hair and a constant frown on his eyes and mouth. He held a drum and drumstick in his hand at all times to shut his students up when we were acting badly. Which, on our first day it became very evident, was all the time.
The following is my personal take on his technique. He taught Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Melodrama and more through a clowns perspective. Actors at all stages of their careers and from all around the world would come to his school to hone their craft. The school was unscripted and anarchistic and with the backdrop of the Parisian landscape, it felt unbounded by my previous social constructs.
Gaulier would encourage students to speak their mother tongues in class because physicality of the Actor is always major and text is always minor. This posed a challenge because we were often partnered off and made to improvise a scene with people we couldn't understand. We relearned how to study body language and subtle nuances of the face. But we never got far before he would bang on his drum and start insulting us, our scene partner, and the countries in which we were both from. He did this in a playful way that made the rest of the class laugh... and made you, the receiver of insults, cry.
What he was doing was not done to bring us down, but rather, he wanted to highlight our flaws and our deepest insecurities so that we could eventually laugh about them too. By vulgarly humiliating us we slowly began to play with a sensitivity and strength that showed beauty in our ugly sides. It also was part of his acting method. He did not want us to play out our real emotions to the audience, he wanted us to always show happiness to PRETEND to be sad or PRETEND to be angry. Always give your audience joy and love, never your real pain. That real pain is beautiful in the real world, and the older you get the more raw baggage you accumulate through loss, heart break, disillusionment and betrayals. But don't give that to your audience even though you should be proud of your life flops.
Fast forward to 2018. I am living in downtown Toronto and auditioning for Film, TV and Commercials. Casting directors may as well have a drum and stick because the format is just like with Gaulier. Brief moments on the mark to show our beauty, love and joy while being well aware of our flaws, doubts and disillusionment. Often it's a flop and we deal with the rejection. We have 8 seconds to prove ourselves. But Gaulier taught was to keep going and grow hungry for the stage. He used to have a bell too, and sometimes on a day you were particularly beautiful he would listen to the whole monologue and then ring the bell instead of bang the drum.
Now in audition rooms, I keep going for that bell and to hell with the damn drum.
For more info on the school visit http://www.ecolephilippegaulier.com/
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Where were you on 10 September ? The majority of Canadians living today were born after that, and for most of us seems like a very long time ago indeed. Over the next six years, no other community in Canada was more involved in or more marked by the progress of war, than the mysterious ‘East Coast Port’ — Halifax, Nova Scotia. The city was never identified otherwise in contemporary newspaper or radio coverage of wartime activities, and for a very good reason. From the beginning, Halifax was the principal and closest staging point in Canada for the war in Europe, and because of this, both the city and its citizens lived perpetually on the rim of danger.
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Since our early days, we’ve supported charitable causes to elevate people and communities around the world. It’s in our DNA.
Collectively, we call our charity initiatives Zwift with Reason. It’s our commitment to supporting charitable causes through the power of sport. By engaging our community of cyclists, runners, and triathletes to actively participate – their collective efforts on Zwift unlock donations for various charities and non-profit organizations. As if the sport endorphins weren’t enough, it’s a way to further feel good about your activity on Zwift!
Want to learn more about our past Zwift with Reason work and charity partnerships? Below you’ll find a selection of some of our charity collaborations!
Zwift with Reason Initiatives
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
André Greipel’s Fight ALS Challenge
Pride On
Climb for Costa
(November 2018, April 2020)
Every day, 619 children and young people from across the UK arrive at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity for life-changing treatments.
Our November 2018 mission asked riders and runners to burn 1,000 calories in Zwift over the week. Once 25,000 Zwifters completed this challenge, we unlocked a donation to support GOSH. In April 2020, runners will be prompted to run at least 4 hours during the month, contributing to the community goal of 18,000 running hours to unlock another donation to GOSH.
(November 2017, February 2019, February 2020)
André Greipel is a World Tour pro cyclist whose mother passed away due to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Since 2017, Zwifters have taken the opportunity to ride with André and other World Tour pros to raise both awareness and funds that accelerate research to combat ALS.
Our collaboration in February 2020 resulted in the largest Zwift group ride to date, with over 7800 participants!
(December 2015-2018, June 2019)
World Bicycle Relief (WBR) delivers specially designed, locally assembled, rugged bicycles for people in need. These WBR “Buffalo bikes” empower students, health workers, and entrepreneurs in rural developing regions with life-changing mobility.
WBR was one of our earliest charity partners, and our four “Ride On for World Bicycle Relief” rideathon events raised enough funds to purchase over 2700 Buffalo bikes!
(July 2016, November 2017-2018)
Qhubeka is dedicated to advancing education, health, and economic opportunities by providing simple, sustainable transportation with bicycles.
We have collaborated with Qhubeka on multiple fundraising initiatives including a group workout series and “training camp” group rides. In November 2018 we swapped out the Ride On thumb for the Qhubeka High Five in all group rides, calling Zwifters to complete two events during a week to unlock an in-game cycling cap. Once 25,000 Zwifters completed this challenge, we donated 500 bikes to Qhubeka.
Movember (November 2019)
Zwift’s Movember 9.9 Mission called all Zwifters to ride or run 9.9 hours in November in support of the 9.9 million fathers, brothers, husbands, friends, and coworkers living with prostate cancer. Once 10,000 Zwifters finished the mission we donated to the Movember charity in support of their efforts to further prostate cancer research.
Pride On (June 2019)
In June 2019, we celebrated our first LGBTQ Pride Month with our Pride On series of group rides. Zwifters rained down the rainbow “Pride On” thumbs during these events, and we put our money behind that support with a donation to Athlete Ally, an organization dedicated to the belief that everyone should have equal access, opportunity, and experience in sports — regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Climb for Costa (November 2018)
Adrien Costa was one of America’s rising cycling stars when a rock climbing accident forced the amputation of his right leg above the knee. Zwifters were challenged to climb 400 meters over the course of one week in November to unlock special in-game cycling shoes, and once 25,000 Zwifters completed the challenge we unlocked a donation to support medical care and rehab for Adrien Costa.
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Irish Crystal: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
by Andrew M. GreeleyAndrew M. Greeley
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"There's evil people around, Dermot love. . . . I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won't we have to fight them!"
This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but from whence does this nameless peril originate? From the Homeland Security goons determined to deport the Irish-born Nuala on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicions and accusations? From the spiteful neighbors campaigning against their family's beloved Irish wolfhounds? Or from the tangled dealings of the Currans, a prosperous clan of Irish-American aristocrats, with whom Nuala and Dermot have recently become acquainted?
The true danger becomes shockingly apparent when a catastrophic car-bombing rocks the Chicago riverfront. Uncovering the twisted minds behind the bombing is not easy; Dermot and Nuala soon find themselves enmeshed in a complicated tapestry of lies and secrets. Nuala's preternatural instincts also lead her to a forgotten manuscript revealing the treachery and deceit behind a tragic chapter in Irish history: the saga of bold Robert Emmet and the failed uprisings of 1798 and 1803.
Between the past and the present, our heroine and her devoted spouse have more than enough mysteries to contend with, but the two of them are bound to make the truth just as clear as . . . Irish Crystal.
Tom Doherty Associates
Nuala Anne McGrail Novels , #9
Priest, sociologist, author, and journalist, Father Andrew M. Greeley (1928-2013) was the author of over 50 bestselling novels and more than 100 works of nonfiction. His novels include the Bishop Blackie Ryan series, including The Archbishop in Andalusia; the Nuala Anne McGrail series, including Irish Tweed; the O’Malley Family Saga, including A Midwinter’s Tale; and standalones such as Home for Christmas and The Cardinal Sins.
A leading spokesperson for generations of Catholics, Father Greeley unflinchingly urged his beloved Church to become more responsive to believers’ evolving concerns. He chronicled his service to the Church in two autobiographies, Confessions of a Parish Priest and Furthermore!
Priest, sociologist, author and journalist, Father Andrew M. Greeley built an international assemblage of devout fans over a career spanning five decades. His books include the Bishop Blackie Ryan novels, including The Archbishop in Andalusia, the Nuala Anne McGrail novels, including Irish Tweed, and The Cardinal Virtues. He was the author of over 50 best-selling novels and more than 100 works of non-fiction, and his writing has been translated into 12 languages.
Father Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. In addition to scholarly studies and popular fiction, for many years he penned a weekly column appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers. He was also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America and Commonweal, and was interviewed regularly on national radio and television. He authored hundreds of articles on sociological topics, ranging from school desegregation to elder sex to politics and the environment.
Throughout his priesthood, Father Greeley unflinchingly urged his beloved Church to become more responsive to evolving concerns of Catholics everywhere. His clear writing style, consistent themes and celebrity stature made him a leading spokesperson for generations of Catholics. He chronicled his service to the Church in two autobiographies, Confessions of a Parish Priest and Furthermore!
In 1986, Father Greeley established a $1 million Catholic Inner-City School Fund, providing scholarships and financial support to schools in the Chicago Archdiocese with a minority student body of more than 50 percent. In 1984, he contributed a $1 million endowment to establish a chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago. He also funded an annual lecture series, “The Church in Society,” at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, from which he received his S.T.L. in 1954.
Father Greeley received many honors and awards, including honorary degrees from the National University of Ireland at Galway, the University of Arizona and Bard College. A Chicago native, he earned his M.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1962 from the University of Chicago.
Father Greeley was a penetrating student of popular culture, deeply engaged with the world around him, and a lifelong Chicago sports fan, cheering for the Bulls, Bears and the Cubs. Born in 1928, he died in May 2013 at the age of 85.
The woman in my bed woke up screaming. Hysterically.
Legions of demons with pitchforks were chasing her, I thought with some lack of sympathy. And herself believing that there were only good angels.
Strong, resourceful spear-carrier that I am, I struggled out of the depths of sleep and put my arm around her. She was as stiff as a redwood tree.
" 'Tis only a dream," I said bravely.
She continued to wail.
"They're all around us!"
" 'Tis only a dream," I insisted. "I'll turn on the lights."
"Don't!" she begged. "I don't want to see them."
"Who don't you want to see?"
"Whom," she sobbed and collapsed into my arms.
I felt the soaking-wet cotton of her Notre Dame sleep tee shirt with the word "Irish!" scrawled above her breasts in gold--a redundant label if there ever were one.
"Whom?" I corrected myself.
"The spies, you friggin' eejit!"
That was a new one. I didn't like it. Often her nightmares were a warning that we were about to embark on one of our mystery tours. There are costs in being married to a fey woman from the Gaeltacht.
"They're part of your nightmare. They're not real."
"They are too real!" She clung to me in desperation. "They're all around us."
Two other presences stumbled into the room, one large and canine, the other small and human.
"Are you all right, Ma?" Nelliecoyne, our seven-year-old daughter, asked.
A very large muzzle nudged around my arms--Fiona, our senior citizen wolfhound. Like the woman in my bed they were both fey. Three of the dark ones in my house--wife, older daughter, and hound.
She eased out of my arms so as to embrace the little girl and pat the big canine on her massive head.
" 'Tis only a nightmare, dear," she said to the little girl.
"Aren't they the terrible things altogether, Ma!"
Since she was speaking English with a brogue, Nelliecoyne pronounced the "th" words as though they began with a "d" as in "dey da terrible dings." She talks brogue only with her ma, and with me sometimes, when I'm around. Otherwise, she talks either Chicago English (with its flat "A") or Irish. Trilingual, like I say, just like her ma.
"Did I wake herself up?" The woman put aside her hysterical mask and became an anxious mother.
"Sure, Ma, don't you know that lightning could strike in the backyard and that one would sleep right through it?"
"That one" was her little sister, Socra Marie, a reformed two-year-old terrorist, doing her best to act like a three-year-old "big girl" and losing sometimes to her exuberance.
"I'm fine now, dear. You and Fiona can go back to sleep. Doesn't your da always take care of me when I have these nightmares?"
"Da says that creative people have them all the time."
"And isn't Da always right?" She sighed.
"And doesn't he always take good care of you?" Nellie replied with her own sigh.
"Always."
They both sighed together. These were West of Ireland sighs that sound like the advent of a serious attack of asthma.
As spear-carriers go, Da isn't the worst of them.
After hugs and kisses the dawn patrol departed. The woman reclaimed the protection of my arms. She was still trembling.
"Can I turn on the lights now, just to be sure?"
She huddled against me.
"All right," she said dubiously.
You just want to screw her.
She's my wife.
You're taking advantage of her fright.
I turned on the lamp at the bedside. Cautiously the woman turned away from my chest and glanced around our bedroom.
"Well, they were here when I woke up."
Her long hair was in disarray. Her face red from tears. She was still shivering. Her sleep shirt was askew. Her eyes darted around, looking for monsters. She was nonetheless gorgeous.
As in all matters, the woman's collection of sleepwear was variable--from outrageously erotic to dull. Moreover, her choice in night garments was not an indicator of her interest in sex. So the blue-and-gold shirt was hardly a hint--not that I needed much of a hint to want her.
I am going to make love to her. She's in her shy West of Ireland mode. Can't beat that.
Only if she asks you. Don't be a horny Notre Domer all your life.
"It was just a dream, Nuala Anne."
"Sometimes dreams are true."
She disengaged from me and lay back on her pillow, still trembling.
"They're just reviews of the day, aided by that last drop of the creature you had at dinner."
"A lot you know."
"Cindasue talked about spies at dinner last night . . ."
"They're all around us, Dermot Michael. Won't we have to fight them!"
I didn't like that one bit.
"Well, we'd better get back to sleep."
She reached for a tissue on the nightstand and wiped away the tears. Almost nine years of marriage and a little gesture like that still destroyed me altogether, as she would have said.
"I'm sorry I woke you up," she said.
"No problem."
"I don't suppose, Dermot, you'd ever want a little ride now, would you?"
"I could be talked into it."
The result was marital sex--a gentle, tender, healing journey down a familiar path which was always new towards a sweetly explosive finale somewhere in a field of flowers. Perhaps, I thought as she slipped back into sleep, this is why God or evolution or someone created marriage.
I have been working, if that's what poets do, on a cycle of poems about marital love. I suspect that the reason God and the evolution process made men and women so much alike and yet so different was to provide surprises in the marriage union. If herself ever stops surprising me, I'll know that our marriage is in trouble.
Reversing the stereotypical expectations, I remained awake, wondering and worrying. Nuala Anne, my glorious and treasured wife, was in one of her labile moods, something that happens to your dark ones intermittently. The problem was that she wanted another child, a second son for the Mick (Micheal Dermod, our son and so far our middle child) to fight with, though there was no sign that our self-possessed five-year-old was looking for a fight with anyone. "Four is a nice number, isn't it now? A nice round number?"
Her first three pregnancies caused serious problems. Nelliecoyne proved difficult to carry and difficult to bring into the world. After the arrival of the Mick, my wife went into postpartum stress. Socra Marie showed up after twenty-five weeks, weighing eight hundred grams. I was uneasy about what might happen next, but I have enough sense not to argue. Then, despite considerable, and admittedly pleasant efforts, she did not conceive.
"Maybe someone is sending us a message," I had suggested very tentatively.
"Maybe," she admitted.
Earlier in the week we had our problems with the dogs--our large and amiable snow-white wolfhounds, Fiona and Maeve. On nice days, as Nuala determined them, they would accompany her and the kids across the street to the local Catholic school, where they perform for the entertainment of all parents and children present.
So on Monday evening I had received a call from the pastor of the parish, a humorless little man who considered our family one of the many burdens he must patiently bear.
"Mr. Coyne?"
"Yes, Father."
"I'm calling about your dogs."
"They are very big dogs, Mr. Coyne."
"And frightening."
"They're very gentle and loving."
Unless someone tried to harm Nuala Anne or her children. Her husband, the canines figured, could take care of himself.
"I have been receiving complaints, Mr. Coyne, about their presence in the school yard in the morning."
"How many complaints, Father?"
"That's not the issue. Parents are worried about the safety of their children. Would you tell Mrs. Coyne that I must insist that the dogs do not come to the school yard anymore."
"I will relay your concerns to Nuala Anne, Father. I never try to tell her anything."
"I would, Mr. Coyne, if it became necessary, request assistance from the police in this matter. I also wish she would stop bringing them into church. It is unseemly to have such large beasts in church."
"I'll inform my wife of your decision to ban her dogs from the parish."
Passive aggressive jerk!
Nuala's face, on her couch across the study, threatened explosion.
"Just one complaint," I had suggested.
She had risen from the couch to her full height without comment and strode down to the room where the kids were doing their homework under the supervision of Ethne, our nanny who was working on her doctorate in elementary education at nearby DePaul.
I had followed along wondering what would happen. All three of the children were engaged in creating crayon-colored designs on drawing paper.
"Is there anyone in the school yard," she had demanded, "who doesn't like the doggies?"
"Mrs. Carson." Nelliecoyne had not looked up from her art. "She says they're dangerous."
"She's a bitch," the Mick had added.
"Bitch, bitch, bitch!" the little one confirmed.
Ethne had giggled.
"Where did you learn those words?" my wife had demanded, her face turning a pleasing shade of crimson.
"From you, Ma." Nelliecoyne had continued to work on her color scheme.
"I don't ever want to hear it from you ever again! Do you understand!"
"Yes, Ma."
Their father, fearing for his life, kept his mouth shut, lest he erupt into laughter.
"You just keep your frigging mouth shut, Dermot Michael Coyne."
"Yes, ma'am."
Back in our study, she had picked up a phone and called the rectory. I lifted the one at my easy chair.
"Father, my husband tells me that you have banned my doggies from parish property."
"Ah . . ."
"I will bring the children to school tomorrow morning without the dogs and tell everyone there that you have banned them at Ms. Carson's request."
"Ah . . . I wish you wouldn't do that . . ."
"Nonetheless I will."
She was talking Chicago English with just a touch of Trinity College superiority.
"Well . . ."
"Well, what, Father?"
"That would be very embarrassing."
"I'm sure it would be."
"Uh, suppose you bring them over on a leash, a kind of compromise . . ."
Passive aggressive jerk.
"I will have to consult my husband about that."
She had hung up the phone triumphantly and thrown herself into my arms.
"Showed that gobshite, didn't I, Dermot Michael Coyne!"
What happens when she gets that angry at you?
I'll never suggest that her mutts are a threat to the common good.
The next afternoon we had our second crisis with the hounds.
It was a remarkably warm and sunny April day. We were outside superintending Socra Marie's first ventures on her Christmas present tricycle, accompanied by most of the children in the neighborhood and some of the mothers, including our friend from down the street, Cindasue McCloud Murphy of the Yewnited States Coast Guard and her daughter Katiesue, Socra Marie's inseparable friend--on her own brand-new tricycle.
Tone-deaf our small one might have been, but she has more than enough muscular coordination. She mastered the little vehicle with ease and to great applause from the spectators.
"She a being shunuff good, ain't she, Ma?" Katiesue said.
"Shunuff."
Then a large man with receding hair and unshaven face lumbered down the street towards us. He was wearing a dirty white down coat, open to his potbelly--our neighbor Mr. Klein, owner of a small but apparently successful trucking company, allegedly "connected." I had never met him but he had a local reputation for irascibility.
I am a retired high school wrestler and linebacker in good shape and about six feet two and a half inches tall. Usually when other men size me up in a bar, for whatever reason, they figure I'm a pushover because of my light blue eyes and blond hair and innocent face. Fortunately for all concerned, this innocence is rarely challenged.
"You Coyne?" he demanded, his beery face two inches from mine.
The kids and their mothers stepped out of the way, save for my wife, now in the Gráinne O'Malley mode and doubtless wishing that she had her canogi stick handy.
"I think so," I said pleasantly.
For a pushover like this guy I didn't need any more testosterone than my normal supply.
"I have three young daughters," his nose almost touching mine.
"Congratulations," I said backing away from his body odor. "I have only two."
"I don't want that prevert who walks your dogs talking to my daughters."
"Mr. Damian O'Sullivan is not a pervert, sir," I said mildly. "He is an artist and he owns a major electronic company."
Which he had inherited from his late father, who also thought he was a pervert because he was a painter of dogs and little children. He was also a "jularker," as Cindasue called swains, to our nanny.
"I don't care what the fuck he is." Klein sneered, once again enveloping me in his body odor. "He's a convicted felon."
"Watch your language around children, Mr. Klein," the virtuous Nuala Anne warned him, with perhaps a touch of hypocrisy.
"You a downright ole polecat, Mista Klein," Cindasue, arms around both our little girls, informed him.
"The next time I see that prevert with your dogs talking to my little girls, I'll beat the shit out of him."
He shoved me, perhaps a mistake.
"I'll advise Damian to avoid your corner, Mr. Klein. I should warn you, however, that our Irish wolfhounds might take some exception to that."
Canis Gaius Hibernicus is the technical name for our beasts.
"I'll shoot your goddamn dogs!"
He swung a fist at my jaw, missed, and bounced ineffectually off my chest. I grabbed his arm, twisted it behind his back, and sent him sprawling on the newly emerging grass.
"That was a misdemeanor, sir. And you are engaging in disorderly conduct, which is another misdemeanor, and your threats may constitute a felony. All in the presence of witnesses. I suggest that it would not be good for your business if these charges should appear in public."
He struggled to his feet, considered charging me, then thought better of it.
"I have to protect my daughters," he said, tears pouring down his face. Then he turned and lumbered back towards his house a half block away.
"Show's over, folks," I said, inordinately proud of my masculine restraint. "Let's get back to tricycles . . . I have a phone call to make."
"Vermin!" Cindasue proclaimed.
"Shunuff," her daughter and ours agreed.
My wife squeezed my arm in approval and sighed loudly. Perhaps the contretemps had ended too quickly to suit her.
"Gobshite," she whispered softly, so as not to shock the children!
I called Mike Casey, superintendent emeritus of the Chicago Police Department and head now of Reliable Security. I told him the story.
"Scott Klein is all right," Mike said, "till he starts on his afternoon beer, then he becomes a problem to everyone. His company does good specialty work, but they could lose some of their contracts pretty easily if he got his name in the papers. We'll have a talk with him. I suspect he may want to move out of the neighborhood. I'll have some of our off-duty cops keep an eye on him until then."
That was that. Unofficial power used quickly and sternly. What choice was there?
Peter Murphy, Cindasue's husband, came over after supper to make sure everything was all right. He is some kind of shirttail cousin of Mike the Cop, as they call the superintendent.
"If he had attacked you," Peter observed, "I know two Irishwomen who would have torn him to pieces."
"Even if one is Scotch Irish," I agreed.
"I've had dealings with both," he said with a laugh.
Nuala Anne was not amused. However.
"Dermot love." She hugged me. "There are people out there that don't like us."
A couple of nights later, after we had dinner with the Murphys, her dreams began.
Copyright © 2006 by Andrew M. Greeley Enterprises, Ltd.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Read by), Peter Francis James (Read by), Shayna Small (Read by), Bahni Turpin (Read by)Jacqueline Woodson
Audio CD(Unabridged)
No vocalist. The little girl didn't know the words. The broad-shouldered woman, having once belted them out loud while showering, was now saved and refused to remember them. Iris wouldn't allow them to be sung and Malcolm's brother's sweet seven-year-old mouth was full. Still, they moved through my head as though Prince himself were beside me. I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine.
And in the room, there was the pink and the green of my grandmother's sorority, the black and gold of my grandfather's Alpha brothers-gray-haired and straight-backed, flashing gold-capped teeth and baritone A-Phi-A! as I made my entrance. High-pitched calls of Skee-wee answering back to them. Another dream for me in their calling out to each other. Of course you're gonna pledge one day, my grandmother said to me over and over again. When I was a child, she surprised me once with a gift-wrapped hoodie, pale pink with My Grandmother Is An AKA in bright green letters. That's just legacy, Melody, she said. I pledged, your grandfather pledged-
Iris didn't.
A pause. Then quietly, her lips at my ear, That's because your mama isn't legacy.
This, I whispered back to her, quoting her sorority mantra, is a serious matter.
My grandmother laughed and laughed.
Look back at me on that last day in May. Finally sixteen and the moment like a hand holding me out to the world. Rain giving way to a spectacular sun. Its rays speckling through the stained glass, dancing off the hardwood floors. The orchestra's music lifting through the open windows and out over the block as though it had always belonged to the Brooklyn air. Look at me. Hair flat-ironed and curling over my shoulders. Red lipstick, charcoaled eyes. The dress, Iris's dress, unworn in her closet until that moment. Already, when it was time for her ceremony, I was on my way. Already, at nearly sixteen, her belly told a story a celebration never could. My grandfather's oversize dress shirts backdropping the baby fat still pouting her cheeks, the fine lanugo hair still clinging to the nape of her neck. Still, that afternoon, the years that separated us could have been fifty-Iris standing at the bottom of the stairs watching me. Me looking away from her. Where was I looking? At my father? My grandparents? At anything. At anyone. But her.
Earlier that day, she came into my room as I pulled stockings over my thighs, attempted to clip them to an ivory gartered corset. These too had once belonged to her-unworn, still boxed and wrapped with tissue paper. The fragile stocking struggling against being locked into the garter-this I had learned from my grandmother-and she from her mother and on back-mine the only ceremony skipping a generation of mothers showing daughters. This-the corset wearing, the garters, the silk stockings-was as old as the house my father and I shared with my grandparents. This ritual of marking class and time and transition stumbled back into the days of cotillions, then morphed and morphed again until it was this, some forgotten ancestor's gartered corset-and a pair of new silk stockings, delicate as dust.
I guess you win this round, she said. Prince it is.
I looked up at her. The evening before she'd twisted her hair into tight pin curls, and standing before me, she began to pull them loose, her thick reddish hair springing into coils down over her ears. The baby fat long gone from her cheeks, replaced by high, stunning bones. I pressed my hand against my own face, felt the same structure beneath my skin.
I didn't know it was a competition, Iris.
Once, a long time ago, she was Mommy and I held her neck, her arms, her belly tight with dimpled baby hands. I remember that. How I reached and reached and reached for her. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy.
The dress, white and unworn, lay spread out on the bed beside me. Behind it, a framed poster of Rage Against The Machine's 1997 concert. My father and I went because Wu-Tang was opening. I was twelve then and the two of us yelled and rapped and cheered so hard, we both stayed home the next day drinking lemon-honey tea to nurse our sore throats. The poster was professionally framed-the red letters against a gray matte, the oversize black frame picking up the muted colors of the black-and-white photograph. Beside it, another poster. If someone said choose between your mom and dad, I wouldn't need to blink. Wouldn't stutter. I'd run like a little kid and jump into my daddy's arms.
Feels like it's always a competition these days. Somewhere along the way, I became your enemy. She pressed her hand to her throat and held it there, her fingers gently moving across her collarbone as though she were checking to see if it remained intact. A gold bracelet slid down away from her wrist. Tiny diamonds catching the light. I swallowed, at once envying and adoring all the ways in which the word lovely could refer to my mother. So strange still, how different we were.
I had given up on trying to negotiate the stockings into the ridiculous garters and was just sitting there staring at her, elbows on my thighs, hands hanging down.
I don't get it. This is my ceremony and you're trying to be stuck about the music. You blew yours, remember-
No, the baby in my belly blew mine. Remember?
Don't even, Iris. Then for a moment, like so many times before this, I lost the words. Watched them drop . . . No. Dissipate . . . from the air between us. Dissipate. The word had shown up on my SAT prep tests again and again until it landed in this room with us. Between my mother. And me. Don't even. I didn't ask to be born. I didn't say-I didn't say do what you and my dad were doing. You could have waited.
Iris raised an eyebrow at me. I know you're not trying to have some kind of abstinence conversation with me.
You could have. There wasn't some rush to do what you guys did.
You mean have sex? Can you really not even say it? Sex, Melody. It's just a three-letter word.
I can say it. I just don't need to right now.
And if we had . . . waited, as you say. Where would you be?
You regret the hell out of me.
Don't curse. I don't regret you. I couldn't imagine this world without you in it.
Then what is it?
She came over to the bed, sat down on the other side of the dress, and ran her hand longingly over it. There were crocheted white flowers at the wrist. The attached train had alternating silk and satin panels. The seamstress had already been working on it for months before my grandparents found out Iris was pregnant. By the time she started showing, the dress was almost done and paid for.
I don't know . . . , she said more to the dress than to me. It's Prince. It's my parents. It's your father. It's me. It's you already sixteen now. Where did all those years go? It's crazy.
There was a catch in her voice I didn't want to hear. Didn't want to deal with. Not now. Not on my day.
It's just Prince, for fuck's sake! It's not like I'm asking to walk in to N.W.A. or Lil' Bow Wow-
Stop cursing, Melody. You're better than that. And N.W.A., Lil' whatever . . . I don't even know what you're saying. She didn't look at me, just continued to run her hand back and forth over the dress. We had the same fingers, long and thin. Piano fingers, people said. But only she played.
I'm just saying it's Prince. And it's my ceremony and he's a genius so why are we even still talking about it? You already nixed the words. Let me at least have the music. Daddy doesn't care. He likes Prince too. Jeez!
For too long we said nothing. There was something moving through me like a razor in my chest-I didn't know then if it was rage or sadness or fear. Maybe Iris felt it too because she moved closer to me, rested her hand on the back of my neck, and pressed her lips into my hair. I wanted more, though-a hug, a kindness whispered into my ear. I wanted her to tell me I was beautiful, that she didn't care what music played, that she loved me. I wanted her to laugh with me about the ridiculousness of garters and stockings.
But instead, she got up, went over to the window, and pulled the curtain back. She stared down at the block as she freed the rest of her curls. It was gray out, drizzling. Downstairs, the orchestra had arrived. I could hear bows being pulled across violins. Could hear my grandfather playing Monk on the piano and imagined his dark fingers, knotted at the knuckles.
Do you like Malcolm?
She turned back to me. Her skin creased at the brow, her eyes-eyes I'd prayed for as a child, Please God let me wake up with Mommy's pretty amber eyes-red-veined now. Please God don't ever let me have eyes like her eyes are right now.
Malcolm? Sure. Yeah. He's still such a sweetie. She looked at me, her mouth turning up into a half smile.
What exactly are you asking me, Melody?
Do you like him . . . for me? Do you think he's a good- I don't know.
I looked up at her. Who else was there to ask who had lived through it all? From beginning to baby. First kiss to hands on a body to sex. How did you even begin it? Keep it going? Wasn't it supposed to be now that she gave me the answers. Told me everything?
You guys have known each other since you were in diapers and he's always been . . . I mean, isn't he?
Isn't he what?
Nothing. Never mind. She put her hands up, surrendering. He seems, she said again, smiling. You just don't seem . . . his type.
Like you would know anything about him. Or me.
Like I said, I've known that boy since he was in diapers.
Yeah, Iris. Both of us were in diapers a long time ago.
We got quiet. Maybe all over the world there were daughters who knew their mothers as young girls and old women, inside and out, deep. I wasn't one of them. Even when I was a baby, my memory of her is being only halfway here.
I hid you from them, you know, she said-like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust.
From who?
Whom, Melody. It's whom.
I was starting to sweat beneath the corset.
Your grandparents. Your beloved grandparents.
You didn't know. You told me you didn't know.
I never said I didn't know. I said I didn't know what to do.
She stopped talking suddenly and looked at me. Hard.
Is your period regular?
What . . . yeah! What the heck, Iris?
She exhaled. Shook her head. Okay, so if you have a regular period and then it just stops and it's not stopping because you're suddenly a super athlete or something-then you're probably pregnant. I'm just saying that to you in case no one else does-
I covered my ears. I'm good. Don't need to hear this. Not today. Not from you. Thanks.
No one ever said it to me. That's why I'm saying it to you. We can talk about this. By the time I was four months pregnant, what I didn't know was that on the other side of pregnancy there was Motherhood.
Of course it was, I said.
Of course it is, she said. I know that now.
How could you not know- You know what- Never mind. I don't get you.
The orchestra was warming up with "Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time." I could hear my grandfather singing the words along with Malcolm's little brother. One voice high. The other low. One voice young and unsure, the other old and clear and deep. I closed my eyes for a minute. The song was older than everyone in the house. When the trumpeter picked up a solo and the music lifted past where the voices had just been, I felt like my ribs were shattering. There was so much in all of it. Just. So. Much. I wanted to say to Iris, It all feels like it's trying to drift out into somebody's eternity. But when I looked up at her again, she was biting the edge of her thumbnail, her left eyebrow jumping the way it did when she was stressing.
I told Aubrey, she said, moving her finger away from her mouth and studying it. And then both of us made believe it wasn't happening for a few months. Because we were kids thinking that if we ignored it, it would go away. I hid you until I couldn't anymore, wearing your granddad's button-down shirts, telling him it was the style.
Did you want to miscarry me?
I was a child, Melody. I was younger than you are now! I wanted to see you born. I wanted to hold you. I was stunned that it was true-that you could have sex with someone and that sex could make another human.
I tried to imagine her in my grandfather's clothes. Everything about her was feminine and tailored and perfect. Everything about her felt the opposite of me. I could imagine me in my grandfather's clothes. But not her.
I wanted you. I wanted you growing in my body, I wanted you in my arms, I wanted you over my shoulder-
She got quiet.
And then the wanting was gone, wasn't it?
She shook her head. More time passed before she spoke again.
It wasn't gone. Just different. You're going to learn this. I mean, I hope you learn this. Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. Today, the love is me wanting to see you in that dress, she said. I want to see me in you because Me in that dress was over a long time ago. Sixteen was gone. Then seventeen, eighteen-all of it.
Reading Group Guide
1. In Red at the Bone, two families from different social classes are brought together by an unexpected pregnancy. How do you think the lives of the characters—from each family—might have been different if Melody had never been conceived? Which characters gained or lost the most, ultimately, as a result of this unplanned child? Consider all the many ways in which their fortunes were altered.
2. Consider the title and how it works with the story. Why do you think the author chose it? What does the phrase mean to you?
3. The author dedicates the book to “the ancestors, a long long line of you bending and twisting.” How does the story explore the idea of legacy? How does it look at the passing down of regret and loss and trauma and history, and also of love and guidance and wisdom and experience? Discuss your own legacies: What have you inherited in this way from your ancestors, and what will be passed on to future generations? How do these legacies compare to the legacies in Red at the Bone?
4. The story begins and ends in Brooklyn, but incorporates the stories of how both Iris and Aubrey’s families came to live there, and also watches Iris experiment with living elsewhere. In your own experience, how strong or important is the connection between people and place? Do you think people and their lives are shaped by their relationships with the places they are from and their feelings about home? Do you see this illustrated in the story, in any particular characters or storylines? What do you think of Iris’s decision to stay away from her family? Can you empathize with her?
5. The theme of mothers and daughters is one that plays throughout the book, and we begin and end the novel with Iris and Melody. How would you describe their relationship? Do you think their relationship has progressed, regressed, or otherwise changed by the conclusion of the novel? In what ways are Iris and Melody similar and in what ways are they different?
6. When Aubrey first brings Iris to his house, he feels a kind of shame about his mother and his way of life that he never experienced before. Consider the different ways in which Aubrey and Iris’s class differences manifest within their relationship. How do those differences affect their relationship as teenagers? As adults? How do other characters in the novel grapple with their class? Consider the upbringings of CathyMarie, Aubrey, Sabe, Melody, and Iris. What do you think the novel is saying about the relationship between race, class, and education?
7. Some of the big historic events that happen in the background of the narrative include the Tulsa massacre of 1921, the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s, and the attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001. How does the author use these events in the book? What do they provide to the structure of the story and time line? What do they contribute to our emotional understanding of the characters? Are the individual characters changed by these events? Do you see this history influencing their outlooks and their ambitions or their legacies? As a child Iris fought with Sabe about the Tulsa story, claiming it wasn’t her history. Is Iris right? Can history truly belong to someone? And who is allowed to tell the story?
8. Discuss the use of musical references in the novel. How does “Darling Nikki” shape our impression of Melody in the first chapter? How does music aid in telling the stories of the other characters and their respective generations: Sabe and Po’Boy? Iris and Aubrey? Slip Rock and CathyMarie?
9. What do we learn about the characters from the way they show their love to each other: From Aubrey’s love of his mother? From Iris’s love of Jam? From Sabe’s love of Po’Boy? From Melody’s love of Malcolm, and vice versa? How does time away from the loved one affect that love? Are there right ways and wrong ways to love, and if so, who exemplifies them within the novel?
10. What do you think the author is saying, ultimately, about generational trauma? Sabe declares: “I carry the goneness. Iris carries the goneness. And watching her walk down those stairs, I know now that my grandbaby [Melody] carries the goneness too.” What do you think she means by this? How does this goneness affect their lives and relationships with others? Is there an opposite to goneness, and if so, is it achievable for any of the characters?
Praise for Red at the Bone:
"[A] remarkable and moving portrait of a family in a changing Brooklyn. . . There's not a single unnecessary word."—Refinery29
"A family portrait that transcends the bounds of time. Woodson, a National Book Award winner, writes with fluidity, grace and finesse, pulling the plot tight in the final word." –BBC.com
"Woodson knows how to articulate aches that, for most of us, remain locked in articulateness—particularly the very human craving for validation. In her latest, Red at the Bone, the National Book Award winner uses this gift to unpack the ambitions and struggles of three generations of a black family in Brooklyn. By the slim novel’s end, she’s painted a poetic mural of their lives."—Elle
"Emotionally transfixing.” —Entertainment Weekly
"A novel you won't soon forget, one that begs to be discussed." —PopSugar
"A slim novel with tremendous emotional power." —Real Simple
"Red at the Bone is fall’s hottest novel." —Town & Country
"You’ll love every last word of this beautiful book." —HelloGiggles
"[A]s teenage Melody takes part in a coming-of-age ceremony, the history of her New York family unfurls, and three generations of longing and ambition come into razor-sharp focus." —Vanity Fair
"Red at the Bone breaks down the ways in which parenthood changes people for both better and worse and what it means to find your true identity." —Parade, Most Anticipated Books of Fall
"Woodson’s language is as elliptical and dreamy as poetry, but it’s always grounded in story and character, like prose. Red at the Bone is a family story that is sparked by an unexpected teenage pregnancy, simultaneously unspooling backward and forward in time." —Vox
"Jacqueline Woodson deftly touches on race, class, religion, and sexuality in a spare but poignant multigenerational portrait of a Brooklyn family." —Business Insider
"A beautifully written examination not just of the bonds of family, but also of how alone one can feel within it…. Woodson paints a portrait of people who can barely remember who they once were, yet live with the echoes of their past selves every day. This lyrical novel makes the reader feel like they are present at a moment both they, and the characters, are attempting to unpack together." —BUST
"Slender miracle of a novel [that] performs a magic trick with time….Woodson skips back and forth between the decades so deftly that it feels like it all happens in a heartbeat." —Family Circle
"Jacqueline Woodson is moving and shaking in both YA and adult literature realms. Her new adult novel brings together a clash of social classes via an unexpected pregnancy . . . Two words: can’t wait." —The Millions, Most Anticipated 2019
"[Jacqueline Woodson’s] books combine unique details of her characters’ lives with the sounds, sights and especially music of their surroundings, creating stories that are both deeply personal and remarkably universal….this lyrical, lightly told coming-of-age story is bound to satisfy." —BookPage
"[A] beautifully imagined novel. . . Woodson’s nuanced voice evokes the complexities of race, class, religion, and sexuality in fluid prose and a series of telling details. This is a wise, powerful, and compassionate novel." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Woodson famously nails the adolescent voice. But so, too, she burnishes all her characters' perspectives. . . In Woodson, at the height of her powers, readers hear the blues: ‘beneath that joy, such a sadness.’" —Kirkus, starred review
Praise for Jacqueline Woodson:
"Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth
"Woodson brings the reader so close to her young characters that you can smell the bubble gum on their breath and feel their lips as they brush against your ear."— Tayari Jones, New York Times-bestselling author of An American Marriage
"Jacqueline Woodson is a master storyteller." —Angela Flournoy, author of the National Book Award finalist The Turner House
★ 07/15/2019
Woodson’s beautifully imagined novel (her first novel for adults since 2016’s Another Brooklyn) explores the ways an unplanned pregnancy changes two families. The narrative opens in the spring of 2001, at the coming-of-age party that 16-year-old Melody’s grandparents host for her at their Brooklyn brownstone. A family ritual adapted from cotillion tradition, the event ushers Melody into adulthood as an orchestra plays Prince and her “court” dances around her. Amid the festivity, Melody and her family—her unmarried parents, Iris and Aubrey, and her maternal grandparents, Sabe and Sammy “Po’Boy” Simmons, think of both past and future, delving into extended flashbacks that comprise most of the text. Sabe is proud of the education and affluence she has achieved, but she remains haunted by stories of her family’s losses in the fires of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. The discovery that her daughter, Iris, was pregnant at 15 filled her with shame, rage, and panic. After the birth of Melody, Iris, uninterested in marrying mail-room clerk Aubrey, pined for the freedom that her pregnancy curtailed. Leaving Melody to be raised by Aubrey, Sabe, and Po’Boy, she departed for Oberlin College in the early ’90s and, later, to a Manhattan apartment that her daughter is invited to visit but not to see as home. Their relationship is strained as Melody dons the coming-out dress her mother would have worn if she hadn’t been pregnant with Melody. Woodson’s nuanced voice evokes the complexities of race, class, religion, and sexuality in fluid prose and a series of telling details. This is a wise, powerful, and compassionate novel. (Sept.)
One could do no better justice to this stunning book from the multi-award-crowned Woodson (Another Brooklyn) than to quote its dedication: "For the ancestors, a long long line of you bending and twisting bending and twisting." That quote exemplifies the sense of family, of connectedness, of endurance that is the legacy of Woodson's characters, further captured when our young heroine Melody says, "Maybe this was the moment when I knew I was part of a long line of almost erased stories." The narrative opens with Melody celebrating her 16th birthday at her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone, wearing the white dress originally made for Melody's mother, Iris, for her own 16th birthday celebration, which never took place because she was pregnant with Melody. Before the ceremony, Iris, heretofore an indifferent mother, urgently tries to impart a sense of heightened expectation and responsibility to an exasperated Melody, which launches the family stories at the heart of the book, from Melody's grandparents barely surviving the 1921 Tulsa race riots to Iris's pregnancy, refusal to marry Melody's father, and determination to regain the freedom she might have lost with Melody's birth. VERDICT An aching story of family and class, ambition and gentrification, sexual desire and what motherhood really means, rendered in beautifully precise language. [See Prepub Alert, 3/4/19.]—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
This quick novel opens with Melody's coming-of-age ceremony. She is 16, the same age her mother was when she gave birth to her. Woodson weaves together the perspectives of three generations, alternating among Melody, her parents, and her grandparents. VERDICT This is a story of adolescence told from multiple generational vantage points.—Elliot Riley, Deerfield Academy, MA
★ 2019-07-01
Woodson sings a fresh song of Brooklyn, an aria to generations of an African American family.
National Book Award winner Woodson (Harbor Me, 2018, etc.) returns to her cherished Brooklyn, its "cardinals and flowers and bright-colored cars. Little girls with purple ribbons and old women with swollen ankles." For her latest coming-of-age story, Woodson opens in the voice of Melody, waiting on the interior stairs of her grandparents' brownstone. She's 16, making her debut, a "ritual of marking class and time and transition." She insists that the assembled musicians play Prince's risqué "Darling Nikki" as she descends. Melody jabs at her mother, Iris, saying "It's Prince. And it's my ceremony and he's a genius so why are we even still talking about it? You already nixed the words. Let me at least have the music." Woodson famously nails the adolescent voice. But so, too, she burnishes all her characters' perspectives. Iris' sexual yearning for another girl at Oberlin College gives this novel its title: "She felt red at the bone—like there was something inside of her undone and bleeding." By then, Iris had all but abandoned toddler Melody and the toddler's father, Aubrey, in that ancestral brownstone to make her own way. In 21 lyrical chapters, readers hear from both of Iris' parents, who met at Morehouse, and Aubrey's mother, CathyMarie, who stretched the margarine and grape jelly sandwiches to see him grown. Woodson's ear for music—whether Walt Whitman's or A Tribe Called Quest's—is exhilarating, as is her eye for detail. Aubrey and little Melody, holding hands, listen to an old man whose "bottom dentures were loose in his mouth, moving in small circles as he spoke." The novel itself circles elegantly back to its beginning, Melody and Iris in 2001 for a brava finale, but not before braiding the 1921 Race Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the fires of 9/11. The thread is held by Iris' mother, Sabe, who hangs on through her fatal illness "a little while longer. Until Melody and Iris can figure each other out."
In Woodson, at the height of her powers, readers hear the blues: "beneath that joy, such a sadness."
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Tobacco Road
by Erskine CaldwellErskine Caldwell
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By Erskine Caldwell
OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA
Copyright © 1960 Erskine Caldwell
Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back. He had put himself to a lot of trouble to get the turnips; it was a long and tiresome walk all the way to Fuller and back again.
The day before, Lov had heard that a man over there was selling winter turnips for fifty cents a bushel, so he had started out with half a dollar early that morning to buy some. He had already walked seven and a half miles, and it was a mile and a half yet back to his house at the coal chute.
Four or five of the Lesters were standing in the yard looking at Lov when he put his sack down and stopped in front of the house. They had been watching Lov ever since he was first seen an hour before on the sand hill nearly two miles away, and now that he was actually within reach, they were prepared to stop him from carrying the turnips any farther.
Lov had his wife to feed and provide for, in addition to himself, and he was careful not to allow any of the Lesters to come too close to the sack of turnips. Usually when he came by the Lester place with turnips or sweet potatoes, or for that matter with any kind of food, he left the road half a mile from the house and made a wide circle through the fields, returning to the road a safe distance beyond. Today, though, he had to speak to Jeeter about something of great importance, and he had ventured closer to the house than he had ever done before when carrying home turnips or sweet potatoes.
Lov's wife was Jeeter Lester's youngest daughter, Pearl. She was only twelve years old the summer before when he had married her.
The Lesters watched Lov closely while he stood in the middle of the road. He had dropped the sack from his shoulder, but he held the neck of it in the rigid grasp of both hands. No one in the yard had changed his position during the past ten minutes. The next move was left entirely up to Lov.
When Lov came to the house and stopped, he had a good reason for doing so; otherwise he would never have come within hailing distance. He wanted to speak to Jeeter about Pearl.
Pearl would not talk. She would not say a word, no matter how persuasive Lov tried to be, nor how angry he was; she even hid from Lov when he came home from the coal chute, and when he found her, she slipped away from his grasp and ran off into the broom-sedge out of sight. Sometimes she would even stay in the broom-sedge all night, remaining out there until Lov went to work the next morning.
Pearl had never talked, for that matter. Not because she could not, but simply because she did not want to. When she was at home, before Lov had married her, she had stayed apart from the other Lesters and rarely opened her mouth from the beginning of one day to the next. Only her mother, Ada, had been able to converse with her, and even then Pearl had never used more than the barest of negatives and affirmatives in reply. But Ada was herself like that. She had begun to talk voluntarily only during the past ten years. Before then, Jeeter had had the same trouble with her that Lov was now having with Pearl.
Lov asked Pearl questions, he kicked her, he poured water over her, he threw rocks and sticks at her, and he did everything else he could think of that he thought might make her talk to him. She cried a lot, especially when she was seriously hurt, but Lov did not consider that as conversation. He wanted her to ask him if his back were sore, and when was he going to get his hair cut, and when was it going to rain again. But Pearl would not say anything.
He had spoken to Jeeter several times before about his troubles with Pearl, but Jeeter did not know what was the matter with her. Ever since she was a baby she had been like that, he said; and Ada had remained untalkative until the last few years. What Jeeter had not been able to break down in Ada for forty years, hunger had. Hunger loosened her tongue, and she had been complaining ever since. Jeeter did not attempt to recommend the starving of Pearl, because he knew she would go somewhere to beg food, and would get it.
"Sometimes I think it's just the old devil in her," Lov had said several times. "To my way of thinking, she ain't got a scratch of religion in her. She's going to hell-fire when she dies, sure as day comes."
"Now, maybe she ain't pleased with her married life," Jeeter had suggested. "Maybe she ain't satisfied with what you provide her with."
"I done everything I can think of to make her satisfied and contented. Every week I go to Fuller on pay-day and buy her a pretty. I get her snuff, but she won't take none; I get her a little piece of calico, but she won't sew it. Looks like she wants something I ain't got and can't get her. I wish I knowed what it was. She's such a pretty little girl—all them long yellow curls hanging down her back sort of gets me all crazy sometimes. I don't know what's going to happen to me. I've got the need of Pearl for a wife as bad as any man ever had."
"I expect she's too young yet to appreciate things," Jeeter had said. "She ain't grown up yet like Ellie May and Lizzie Belle and Clara and the other gals. Pearl ain't nothing but a little gal yet. She don't even look like a woman, so far."
"If I had knowed she was going to be like she is, maybe I wouldn't have wanted to marry her so bad. I could have married me a woman what wants to be married to me. But I don't want Pearl to go now, though. I sort of got used to her around, and I'd sure miss seeing them long yellow curls hanging down her back. They make a man feel kind of lonesome some way. She sure is a pretty little girl, no matter if she does act like she does all the time."
Lov had gone back home that time and told Pearl what Jeeter said about her, but she sat in the chair and made no sign of answering him. Lov did not know what to do about her after that. But he had realized from that time on that she was still a little girl. During the eight months they had been married she had grown three or four inches in height, and she weighed about fifteen pounds more now than she had at the beginning. She still did not weigh much more than a hundred pounds, though she was gaining in weight and height every day.
What Lov wanted to speak to Jeeter about now in particular was the way Pearl had of refusing to sleep with him. They had been married almost a year, and still she slept by herself, as she had done since the first. She slept by herself on a pallet on the floor, refusing even to let Lov kiss her or touch her in any way. Lov had told her that cows were not any good until they had been freshened, and that the reason he married her was because he wanted to kiss her and feel her long yellow curls and sleep with her; but Pearl had not even indicated that she heard him or knew what he was talking about. Next to wanting to kiss her and talk to her, Lov wanted to see her eyes. Yet even this pleasure she denied him; her pale blue eyes were always looking off into another direction when he came and stood in front of her.
Lov still stood in the middle of the road looking at Jeeter and the other Lesters in the yard. They were waiting for him to make the first move; friendly or hostile, it mattered little to them so long as there were turnips in the sack.
Jeeter was wondering where Lov had got the turnips. It did not occur to him that Lov had bought them with money; Jeeter had long before come to the conclusion that the only possible way a quantity of food could be obtained was by theft. But he had not been able to locate a turnip patch that year anywhere within five or six miles. There had been planted a two-acre field the year before over at the Peabody place, but the Peabody men had kept people out of the field with shotguns then, and this year they had not even planted turnips.
"Why don't you come in the yard off the tobacco road, Lov?" Jeeter said. "Ain't no sense standing out there. Come in and rest yourself."
Lov made no reply, nor did he move. He was debating within himself the danger of entering the yard, against the safety of staying where he was in the road.
For the past few weeks Lov had been thinking about taking some plow-lines and tying Pearl in the bed at night. He had tried everything that he could think of so far, except force, and he was still determined to make her act as he thought a wife should. He had reached the point now where he wanted Jeeter's advice before going ahead with the plan. He believed Jeeter would know whether it was advisable from the practical side, since Jeeter had had to contend with Ada for almost a lifetime. He knew Ada had once acted as Pearl was now doing, but Jeeter had not been treated as he was treated, because Ada had borne him seventeen children, while Pearl had not even begun to have the first one.
If Jeeter said it would be satisfactory to tie Pearl in bed, then he would go ahead and do it. Jeeter knew more about such things than he did. Jeeter had been married to Ada forty years.
Lov hoped that Jeeter would offer to go down to the house at the coal chute and help him tie Pearl in the bed. Pearl fought back so fiercely whenever he attempted to catch her that he was afraid he would not be able to accomplish anything without Jeeter's help.
The Lesters stood around in the yard and on the front porch waiting to see what Lov was going to do next. There had been very little in the house again that day to eat; some salty soup Ada had made by boiling several fat-back rinds in a pan of water, and corn bread, was all there was when they had sat down to eat. There had not been enough to go around even then, and the old grandmother had been shoved out of the kitchen when she tried to come inside.
Ellie May stood behind a chinaberry tree, looking around the trunk at Lov. She moved her head from one side of the tree to the other, trying to attract Lov's attention.
Ellie May and Dude were the only Lester children left at home. All the others had gone away and married, some of them just leaving in a casual way as though they were only walking down to the coal chute to see the freight trains. When they failed to return within two or three days, it was known that they had left home.
Dude was throwing a lopsided baseball at the side of the house, and catching it on the rebound. The ball hit the house like a clap of thunder, rattling the loose weather-boarding until the vibration swayed the house from side to side. He threw the ball continually, the ball bounding with unfailing regularity back across the sandy yard to where he stood.
The three-room house sat precariously on stacks of thin lime-rock chips that had been placed under the four corners. The stones had been laid one on top of the other, the beams spiked, and the house nailed together. The ease and simplicity with which it had been built was now evident. The centre of the building sagged between the sills; the front porch had sagged loose from the house, and was now a foot or more lower than it originally was; and the roof sagged in the centre where the supporting rafters had been carelessly put together. Most of the shingles had rotted, and after every wind-storm pieces of them were scattered in all directions about the yard. When the roof leaked, the Lesters moved from one corner of the room to another, their movements finally outlasting the duration of the rain. The house had never been painted.
Jeeter was trying to patch a rotten inner-tube. He had said that if he could ever get all the tires on the old automobile standing up at the same time again, he would haul a load of wood to Augusta and sell it. Woodcutters were being paid two dollars a load for seasoned pine delivered in the city; but the blackjack that Jeeter tried to make people buy for fuel never brought him more than fifty or seventy-five cents. Usually, when he did succeed in getting a load of it to Augusta, he was not able to give it away; nobody, it seemed, was foolish enough to buy wood that was tougher than iron water-pipes. People argued with Jeeter about his mule-like determination to sell blackjack for fuel, and they tried to convince him that as firewood it was practically worthless; but Jeeter said he wanted to clear the land of the scrub oak because he was getting ready to farm it again.
Lov had by that time moved a few steps nearer the yard and had sat down in the tobacco road with his feet in the drain ditch. He kept one hand gripped tightly around the mouth of the sack where it had been tied together with a piece of twine.
Ellie May continued to peer from behind the china-berry tree, trying to attract Lov's attention. Each time he glanced in that direction, she jerked her head back so he could not see her.
"What you got in that there croker sack, Lov?" Jeeter shouted across the yard. "I been seeing you come a far piece off with that there croker sack on your back. I sure would like to know what you got on the inside of it. I heard it said that some people has got turnips this year."
Lov tightened his grip on the mouth of the sack, looking from Jeeter to the next Lester in turn. He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberry tree.
"Did you have a hard time getting what you got there in the sack, Lov?" Jeeter said. "You look like you is all out of breath."
"I want to say something to you, Jeeter," he said. "It's about Pearl."
"What's that gal done now, Lov? Is she treating you mean some more?"
"It's just like she's always done, only I'm getting pretty durn tired of it by this time. I don't like the way she acts. I never did take to the way she does, but it's getting worse and worse all the time. All the niggers make fun of me because of the way she treats me."
"Pearl is just like her Ma," Jeeter said. "Her Ma used to do the queerest things in her time."
"Every time I want to have her around me, she runs off and won't come back when I call her. Now, what I say is, what in hell is the sense in me marrying a wife if I don't get none of the benefits. God didn't intend for it to be that way. He don't want a man to be treated like that. It's all right for a woman to sort of tease a man into doing what she wants done, but Pearl don't seem to be aiming after that. She ain't teasing me, to her way of thinking, but it sure does act that way on me. Right now I feel like I want a woman what ain't so—"
"What you got in that there croker sack, Lov?" Jeeter said. "I been seeing you for the past hour or longer, ever since you came over the top of that far hill yonder."
"Turnips, by God," Lov said, looking at the Lester women.
"Where'd you get turnips, Lov?"
"Wouldn't you like to know!"
"I was thinking maybe we might fix up some sort of a trade, Lov—me and you. Now, I could go down to your house and sort of tell Pearl she's got to sleep in the bed with you. That's what you was aiming to speak to me about, wasn't it? You want her to sleep in the bed, don't you?"
"She ain't never slept in the bed. It's that durn pallet on the floor that she sleeps on every night. Reckon you could make her stop doing that, Jeeter?"
"I'd be pleased something powerful to make her do what she ain't doing. That is, if me and you could make a trade with them turnips, Lov."
"That's what I came by here for—to speak to you about Pearl. But I ain't going to let you have none of these turnips, though. I had to pay fifty cents for this many in a sack, and I had to walk all the way to the other side of Fuller and back to fetch them. You're Pearl's daddy, and you ought to make her behave for nothing. She don't pay no attention to nothing I tell her to do."
"By God and by Jesus, Lov, all the damn-blasted turnips I raised this year is wormy. And I ain't had a good turnip since a year ago this spring. All my turnips has got them damn-blasted green-gutted worms in them, Lov. What God made turnip-worms for, I can't make out. It appears to me like He just naturally has got it in good and heavy for a poor man. I worked all the fall last year digging up a patch of ground to grow turnips in, and then when they're getting about big enough to pull up and eat, along comes these damn-blasted green-gutted turnip-worms and bore clear to the middle of them. God is got it in good and heavy for the poor. But I ain't complaining, Lov. I say, 'The good Lord knows best about turnips.' Some of these days He'll bust loose with a heap of bounty and all us poor folks will have all we want to eat and plenty to clothe us with. It can't always keep getting worse and worse every year like it has got since the big war. God, He'll put a stop to it some of these days and make the rich give back all they've took from us poor folks. God is going to treat us right. He ain't going to let it keep on like it is now. But we got to stop cussing Him when we ain't got nothing to eat. He'll send a man to hell and the devil for persisting in doing that."
Lov dragged the sack of turnips across the drain ditch and sat down again. Jeeter laid aside the rotten inner-tube and waited.
Excerpted from Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. Copyright © 1960 Erskine Caldwell. Excerpted by permission of OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA.
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Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies
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Soccer player Bongani Zungu is the man who has actress Cindy Mahlangu whipped and their romance has many wanting to know more about him.
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So, who is exactly is the man that has captured the Blood and Water's actress heart.
Bongani was born in Duduza, which is the East Rand in Gauteng.
Bongani may be a ladies man but he is very close to his Mom and makes sure to spend time with her when he is in Mzansi and they speak often over the phone when he is abroad. Bongani also has an older brother. In 2013, he lost his Dad who had the biggest positive influence in his life and was a huge supporter of his career and would call him after each match to tell him how he did.
In 2014, whilst still playing for Mamelodi Sundowns, he was hijacked right in front of his parents home whilst taking his younger brother home. The incident resulted in him being more careful when he's driving.
FOOTBALL CAREER
The 27-year-old soccer player plays for the national team Bafana Bafana and also in the top French league for Amiens SC but has been in Mzansi since the coronavirus pandemic. He has since been released from the French club and is in talks to join Scottish giants Rangers.
He will be entering his sixth season in Europe since he left Mamelodi Sundowns.
The star midfielder credits Ivory Coast legend Yaya Toure as his biggest influence on becoming a great soccer player.
When Bongani isn't on the field or training he spends his time chilling, playing video games and even reads some books.
Before being linked to Cindy, Bongani was engaged to Khanyi Cele, who last year set tongues wagging when she went on a rant on an Instagram LIVE where she was intoxicated and alleged that Bongani had been unfaithful to her.
Please note that the video below contains explicit language.
Drama does also love the soccer player, a few years ago a video of him naked in a bathroom was leaked on social media.
The video showed Bongani licking his lips seductively, while another clip shows him fondling his genitalia. Whilst he may be earning big cheques in Europe the football star almost had the bank repossess his estate due to falling behind on payments
When he is in France, Bongani gets around in two beasts of cars, a Range Rover Velar R Dynamic and an M4 BMW. Bongani also recently got himself his dream car for his time in Mzansi Maserati Ghibli
Image credit: KickOff
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So you’ve chosen to dive yourself into the universe of game turn of events, have collected a group of powerful champions to handle all the huge issues and are prepared to make the following best game in the business… besting WoW, Guild Wars… (you get the point). You’ve slashed up the entirety of your conceptualizing and gathered some truly sharp ideas for a storyline and you’re all set. Yet, among all the programming, the character ideas, the prisons, and the journeys – what are genuinely the main parts of your game that will decide if somebody has a ball? Peruse on, and permit me to impart to you my opinion.
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A Life of Dirt
Jigawa Dirt Sentence
I have lived in this new world now for close to 9months, visited a whole lot of places within and sometimes without , i have learned a lot of new things about the people’s culture and tradition and experienced the northern end of Nigeria from a whole new angle from what i have always been made to believe, my experience as changed my perspectives, informed my assumptions and filled me with a whole new knowledge base about the people and way things really are out here in northern Nigeria so to say. I have seen a lot of things happen upside down out here, unimaginable situations, beliefs, orientations and perspectives that has created the most inundated, upturned minds I have ever seen, isolating the people from realities of life, crooking there personality and worst of all leaving them with a baffling and demeaning “dirt culture” that as left me mouth agape since I stepped into Jigawa state. I could never have imagined that there are a people living in so much dirt, caused by self and cursed by attitude to dwell in it with pride, a people so bordered by nothing, lying around in awkward laziness while disease and dirt eat out there destiny, rejecting help on the ground of religion that has eaten up their culture, leaving them with tattered cloths and begging bowls, MP’s with round face and belly and politicians in flowing guinea regalia.
Oh! You think my Lagos is or was dirty? At no point or any level was Lagos like this before, any comparison at all will put over populated Lagos in the place of paradise while this Jigawa will be a part of hell where there is no fire (just imagine that kind of place), and a place like Kaduna will be heaven itself (that spot is tight oh!). KD is a northern state, central for all I care but it’s cleaner than you think, and Jigawa state is just dirt ridden. No wonder they have all kind of diseases as an obvious part of their everyday life. Blindness, leprosy, high mortality rate, cholera, polio and even a recent outbreak of meningitis and polio in Biriniwa was being covered up by some crazy politicians obviously because they were supposed to have spent millions of naira on vaccinations, but the problem is not the vaccination but the people that are being vaccinated, their minds have been nurtured to stay low and down in dirt. What do you make of a man that cannot think for himself or a woman who probably does not know beyond the first name of his husband? The Jigawa society breeds a people that are not capable of thinking at any level at all, and they are proud about it. Thinking is the business of the chief Imam, politicians and emirs, their duty is to lounge in dirt and wait for instruction and that is dirt. JG is just a dump of every kind of dirt you can imagine, no dumpster, dump truck, or incinerator to haul or burn it down; maybe they need the Sumerian “Dumuzi” to help cleanse the land.
Everywhere you turn to is filled with dirt, nylons, paper, stagnant water, living and dead dirts. From Gummel to Ringim, Hadejia to Dutse, I am not sure about Kazaure but wherever this is obvious human presence in this arid Sudan savannah vegetation, there is an unimaginable, disproportional level of dirt. I live in Hadejia where there are so many people, the residential and most populated part of the state, the soil does not absorb water and there is no visible drainage in the anywhere except the areas surrounding the Emir’s palace and some part of GRA. Where gutters exist in the GRA they are blocked with dirt and even at some points turned to dumps for burning refused. A good example of such dumb is the frontage of the SSG’s house in the GRA, the gutters are totally blocked out and still he sits there most evening with his older versions of Almajeris, gisting and chating away into the night.
So you think there are mosquitoes in Ebute-Meta? Thank God I am immune to malaria, but for those that are not, it’s been war unending. Mosquitoes breed here not just in stagnant but in dirt too, since there are no real outlets for water to flow, mosquitoes breed easily and reign supreme. Nettings are nothing compared to the might of the contenders we deal with. Sometimes I feel like closing my eyes when I ride through town because it’s filled with lazy ass blokes lying around on mats wasting in tattered clothes, they just lie there like trash in a garbage can, watching the sun rise and set with bowls of food trading places like players on a chess board. Imagine that all a man does every day is watch life unfold without adding a single flip to it on the excuse that it is destiny that has kept him on a mat, just like a sick, abandoned dog waiting to die; very funny you would say.
This is definitely more like a curse because to be neat here is like carrying a false identity. It takes being a politician or elites in the society to bath and adorn you in neat clothes; to look presentable is to either be a VIP or a stranger. It is very easy for you to identify a non-indigene, most especially among the male folks because they always look neat and different even when clad in local attires. With the exception of a large chunk of females, especially in the urban areas, neatness is a crime they hardly commit. Sometimes you see them in full dashiki or agbada mode and you go wow, this is nice, please go a step closer and you will discover that the big regalia is heavy with such dirt that you will want to strip it of the owner and burn it up because of the risk involved putting on such a dirty attire. Sometimes i wonder how they breathe in this dirty gabs, I just keep wondering how they live so comfortably in such great dirt in, out and all around. I have never imagined a people could live so gloriously in dirt before in my life and my crazy assumption is that it is a Jigawa thing.
It’s not just here in Hadejia, the dirt syndrome is the same everywhere have visited in Jigawa state, even in Dutse that is the heart of the matter, and dirt thrive at the most unbelievable level. Apart from the main section of town that carries the state presence, it’s either living or dead dirt in all direction, except areas populated by youth corpers with a mix of non-indigenes in it. I just wonder how this people developed such an outrageous dirt culture, who gave the verdict for such a life of dirt. My three weeks sojourn in Fandum, a ward under Kiri Kasama local government during the INEC voters registration process gave me a wow experience of “living in dirt”. Imagine a whole village without a single broom in it, a place where people just kick the dirt to the corner with bare foot. By virtue of the cold harmattan during my time of visit, people don’t even bother to bath or change their clothing. It takes divine intervention to breathe when work starts everyday with the men and even gets worst when the women start coming out with their kids for the registration thing, the flies double and the atmosphere become so odious from their great body dirt. They are more like zombies with different shades of eye pencil and at least two colours of lipstick on their lips, smelling like carcasses and corps that had been abandoned to putrefaction without burial. Even when they bath because some of the women do for reasons i can’t remember the stench is still not driven away, and for the men, it’s just a change of gab from one dirty old to a filthy new one with a cap that defines a new day, with the exception of Fridays or probably wedding ceremonies that happens every week, wallowing in dirt is just super cool here.
Did I hear you say its poverty? Nah, this is more like a culture that has been given full embrace edged out of profound laziness that I dubbed “Mumu Virus” and passed down from one generation to the next. How do you define the life of a man that wakes up in the morning and transfer is sleeping mat from inside the house to outside, standing up to pray when it’s time or eat or a bowl of food arrives from one of his many wives hidden inside the mud walls of his quarters? His source is the politician next door and the other one down the street, and he’s not the only one, even his neighbour next door is surviving on the benevolence of one Alhaji or the other. When called to work, they tell you sadaka (alms) will be good enough and even for those that are farmers, it’s an excuse for living in abject dirt. For those that engage in other works of life beyond farming, there is always an excuse for a dirty life style and the very selected few, the elites so to say are bags of dirt going around in fine guinea brocades, feeding the mind of their people with demeaning information that take them down, give them no value and leave them all down in the dirt. Believe me, everywhere in Jigawa is like the Iwaya, Oyingbo and Ajegunle of old in Lagos, something must be done to give it a new identity.
It looks beyond repair but I know God will, we fast and pray and we know heaven will someday send a redeemer in the form of a leader that will awaken the people of this end of Nigeria called Jigawa from this slumber of dirt and death. Chikena! Ina Sonku jama’ar Jigawa.
They must find it difficult….
Those who have taken authority as the truth
Rather than truth as authority
G.MASSEY
The only people you see moving around with the will to see the next moon are the almajeris, in their glorious rags they cuddle their precious begging bowl, stopping at every door post to beg for alms with a hoarse song on their lips. They have parents but they’ve been donated to an Alfa for keeps in the name of Islamic studies, they beg from morning till late at night in tattered clothes, only to return to home, deliver to the master, screaming on the top of their voices, eating only when there is bread to be broken and sleep half naked inside and outside the Alfa’s mosque, encamping around lighted hays for heat only to wake up in the morning to continue with the routine like slaves without shackles or masters whip behind their back, but grave fetters and trammel on their mind soul and being. Trained and tamed to live in dirt and feed like rug rats with the mind of slaves. Their clothes are tattered, hair filled with lice and ring worms, legs are never without a sore with bodies bearing nothing but dirt and scars of their daily life. Hands in hands they go around, with nothing but crumbs and love to share, living a life ridden in dirt.
They are like jinn’s in lamps with no Aladdin to rub their souls to freedom, and like Aladdin with a lamp to rub but no jinni coming out because the lamp as already been robbed off its jinni by princes of the land.
All around you see them, men in their prime wasting in wait for what the instructions to roll down from the top, men devoid of the ability to think on their own because they’ve been thought before conception that it’s not their duty to think at all, right from their fathers loin. Denied of self value even before they knew the sun, and yet they gather to sing the praise of the man that has through cunning device from generation before, made them less than human, living them in existence and consciously denying them the right to live but rather leaving them in the planes of breathing and locomoting without self defined reason for their next breathe but agility to reserve the next word from the breathe of the master. The kings (Emirs), the king makers, the elites and chiefs, and more recently the politicians, a minuscule decimal the masters of the north, all driving the people like drones with horse whips and religion, in the valley of power, heavily laden with denial and yet these people live with no desires of their own but the will of the master to live and die for, they die in pain, penury and abject denial of the things they labour for while the master grows round and round in unimaginable pleasure on the lots of the people. No hope for a messiah because their intellectual domain is not capable of brewing a single thought beyond what the master says must be done. No liberty in sight because to them, their minds of slave and living denied is the right pattern of life. To them the world is wrong and their world is right, the master must live in luxury from their spoils while they must continue to live in poverty, diseases, death, dearth and decay.
Religion is the tool of denial in the hand of the master; with it he has eaten the culture and tradition of the people away, using their desire for a touch of the supreme as a mantra for making them a perfect mind slave. His demesne increase while their misery increases, but still they see no reason because their minds has been shackled beyond the bangles they wear in obeisance of this master they revere.
The women have been forged for generations to believe that they are worth less than a bag of corn, like scum, the only place they see life is in the loins of a man. Their life starts from 13 years old and ends at thirty, the prime of their sexual age. So brightly painted in indigo, red and black, layers of pancake and heavily reddened lips on torque, led and pencils in place of eye lid and lashes, they go around heavily laden in veils, with just one thought in their head “to be the wife of one man, irrespective of the number of wives he has already”, to live behind the clay walls of his dwelling as burdens, and moan under the breathe of his manliness with many children to show for it. Whether they live or die is not her deal, almajeri’s or others a choice she’s less concerned about as long as her womanhood as been proven, her task is done and life is not worth more. To her, life is worth even less than a dragon’s breathe, if it is not spent under the breathe of a man.
I thought the joy of a mother should be in the child come to something in life; here it is different because it is just about giving the child a life. Hardly a woman in puberty here that is without a child, hardly a man who’s house is in draught of women but the children are just made and not moulded, they are ejected to create space for another and eschewed from the time they know their names. Only the slave master as a child to carry on the plantation and nurture them in their old age, here in the north, where men live in the joy of slavery, with women as baby factories valued only in the days of their prowess in pleasure quest, each child is a potential prince of the Almajeri kingdom, given away in the name of religion, in bidding to the instruction of the master that as clearly stated that “destiny is life, it’s all about living and dying and nothing beyond the gates of existence“. He lives in glamour, savouring the pleasure and sweet taste of every moment of life that is borne from the sweat and blood of the people (his people so to say) while he doles out instruction and dictates that mar them, leaving the without the ability to think or reason, through the hands religion, the very soul of the people.
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the a-atheism blog
Brought to God via the New Atheism's God-awful philosophy.
The mind and journey of an obsessive, non-religious, non-atheist.
Christopher Hitchens & Stagecoach Humiliate Richard Dawkins
First I must say R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens. You were my favorite atheist, even when I no longer found you convincing. You also had far more integrity and courage than your fellow Horseman (now pony rider) Richard Dawkins:
Hitchens met Craig willingly at a panel...
...Dawkins met Craig unwillingly at a panel.
Hitchens referred to him as Dr Craig...
...Dawkins referred to him as Mr Craig.
Hitchens admitted atheist academics took Craig seriously...
...Dawkins ignored even Dennett and Grayling's engagements!
Hitchens acknowleged Craig as a scholar...
...Dawkins calls Craig anything but a scholar.
Hitchens received letters of advice from fans...
...Dawkins received letters of advice from "I'm-an-atheist-but"-ers.
Hitchens was grateful for the civility shown to him by students and staff...
...Dawkins was ashamed of the civility shown to Craig by students and staff.
Hitchens joked about low-balling their debate...
...Dawkins was serious about low-balling their non-debate.
Hitchens lost his life...
...Dawkins lost his balls.
RIP Hitch...
...ROFL Dick.
And, secondly, a little extra Christmas treat:
That's correct! They were only contracted to be displayed for a few weeks... but they will remain fitted until a new purchase is made on the advert space (which, given the time of year and current economic climate, could be for a while)?
So, 2011 has been a bit of a humbug year for the increasingly Scrooge-like Dawkins...
...what will 2012 bring?
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Labels: Christopher Hitchens Richard Dawkins William Lane Craig October UK Tour Reasonable Faith Oxford Sheldonian God Delusion hypocrisy self-promotion cowardice
Richard Dawkins: "I am ashamed of my university!"
You'd think that if William Lane Craig were not such a big deal, then Dawkins really wouldn't have much to say about him. While Dawkins certainly would like us to think his arguments are of no significance, the fact is that when it comes to Craig personally, Dawkins just doesn't know when to keep his big mouth shut!
Yes, the greatest no-show on Earth has now seen the video of Craig's lecture response to The God Delusion and has been posting his own response not to Craig, not to academic journals... But on PZ Myers' blog!
That's right, the leader of the "Brights" has taken refuge as a troll:
"Craig is not a skilled debater. His style is tediously to drag out pompous syllogisms, which his opponents ignore because they are irrelevant, and which his disciples cannot understand: the combination of incomprehension plus his loud voice makes them think he has ‘won’ the debate, and this impression is reinforced by the fact that he always declares that he has ‘won’ whether he has or not. If anybody does succumb to his incessant badgering for debate (he seems to have nothing else to do with his time), the best technique would probably be to agree to debate him on the question of biblical morality, and then quote his own words at him, on the subject of the genocide of the Canaanites:" (Richard Dawkins, Pharyngula; comment 17)
So, no response to the arguments. Still the same tantrums, whining and insults from the sidelines that he's resorted to in the past. Dawkins evidently suffers from "Basil Fawlty" syndrome: a complete failure to self-reflect on one's own psychology and actions. How can he not realize such comments merely imply that he's compensating, for feeling too dumb to handle Craig's rebuttal of his "unrebuttable" book?
Furthermore, Dawkins proves himself hopelessly inconsistent yet again: he's just claimed that "Craig is not a skilled debater", yet when I asked him in 2009 to explain why he won't debate, Dawkins' 5th excuse (out of at least 12, spanning 4 years) was because Craig is a "professional debater"! *
But wait, you ain't seen nothing yet:
"I’ve just listened to the last part of the recording of Craig’s Sheldonian speech. Incredibly, he not only repeats his outrageous defence of genocide almost word for word, but is actually applauded for doing so, If the applauders were Oxford students, I am ashamed of my university. A show of hands at the end showed that almost a hundred percent of the audience were religious, so they were not a typical student audience. I’m still ashamed of them. I’m also ashamed of the chairman, Millican, who let him repeat those disgusting words without a murmur of protest."
(Richard Dawkins, Pharyngula; comment 119)
There you go. Not only is atheist Peter Millican ex-communicated (who, incidentally, has written far more of substance in disagreement with these Old Testament narratives and actually has a proper Oxford professorship... oh, and he actually had the courage to debate Craig) but apparently, the entire institution of Oxford University is also completely unworthy of almighty Dawkins! He's also gone so far as to attack John Lennox for "masquerading as a scientist while believing Jesus turned water into wine" (something which never stopped Dawkins debating him thrice before, and so much for the "new-found respect" Larry Taunton thought they shared) as well as hinting that Dr Daniel Came is one of those treacherous "'I'm-an-atheist-but' fellow travellers".
Simply astounding. Clearly, nobody is safe from the wrath of Dawkins' personal attacks. However, if you're looking to find shelter, evidentally the best place to dwell is within an academic learning environment. You won't catch Dawkins lowering himself from his high chair to mix with such a shameful crowd (though, while he's up there, can someone please wipe his mouth and change his nappy)?
We have proof Dawkins has seen the video yet not responded to the arguments. The "why" question indeed appears silly at this point. Dawkins' behaviour betrays a fear and maybe even an inability to respond intellectually (though I'm still holding out hope that he can).
Especially, it may be worth pressing him to respond to his contradictory handling of the moral argument, as criticised by Craig. Not only does Dawkins commit the same fallacy every time he blusters on with his diversionary "Canaanites" tactic, it's also the simplest to grasp... If he needs to work his way up in baby steps, that is.
Thank God for atheists like Millican, Came, Law and quite a number of others who don't have as much media attention, yet make up for it with integrity.
(wish this one were mine too, but it's Emerson's!)
* one desperate Dawkins fan, on the very youtube page of Dawkins' 2009 excuses, even had the following to say:
"Dawkins called Craig a "Professional Debater". So to claim Dawkins said Craig is 'not a good debater' is an outright lie." - Enyulan
So much for attention to evidence, but it's handy to know that logically, therefore, even some atheists agree we can justifiably accuse Dawkins of lying (or just plain losing his grip)!
I directed the youtuber to Dawkins' own blog comments:
Dawkins' "shameful" Pharyngula outbursts (comments 17 & 119): http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/08/why-i-will-not-debate-william-lane-craig/#comments
Dawkins attacks John Lennox: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643752-archbishop-calls-for-nhs-bill-to-cover-spiritual-health/comments?page=2#comment_886901
Dawkins scraping at the "no true atheist" fallacy to dismiss Dr Came and other critics: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643584-why-i-refuse-to-debate-with-william-lane-craig/comments?page=15#comment_883363
Posted by Birdieupon at 09:31 25 comments:
Richard Dawkins Attacks John Lennox in Latest Craig-Bitter Hissy Fit!
What won't Dawkins do next? That is the question!
It has been truly extraordinary watching the reverse-evolution of Richard Dawkins - from self-promoting and self-professed leader of the "Brights" - to a ranting, toy-throwing infant, with literally nothing more than incoherent ad hominem left. One wonders whether he still believes his arguments are "unrebuttable".
Many are familiar with his desperate attempts to undermine William Lane Craig, so to avoid manning up and debating him during his recent UK Tour. He's given at least 12 excuses over the past 4 years, the most recent of which was a smokescreen that even fellow atheists saw through: "I really don't like how 'dr' Craig interprets a particular old testament narrative, therefore I don't need to engage with his arguments for theism or criticisms of my multi-million-selling, non-peer-reviewed book".
But who could predict that Dawkins would lose all sense of coherence and discernment while throwing his latest tantrum? In a recent forum post on his "clear-thinking oasis" website (Pretentiousness Police! Pull over!) Dawkins actually attacked Prof John Lennox, for being just as unworthy of engaging with as Dr Craig! His reason? That Lennox "masquerades as a scientist while believing Jesus turned water into wine"!
As the video above shows, this excuse did not stop Dawkins debating Lennox three times in the past! Indeed, John Lennox gave an actual argument as to why such a belief is not incompatible with science (briefly: 1. if God exists then he can feed new events into the system he's already created, 2. turning water into wine is such a new event, 3. therefore if God exists then he could do it)!
Dawkins' response? The fallacy of personal incredulity.
And now, behold the abject desperation and emotionalism! Evidently, while still fuming at Dr Craig being endorsed even by fellow Oxford atheists, as worthy of civilised discussion and debate, Dawkins feels the need to lash out even less discriminately than ever before. The important thing to remember is, apparently, that if you're not an atheist.... YOU'RE NOT WORTHY!
Given the sheer inconsistency of Dawkins' "sick notes" (love that expression, Tim Stanley) which includes contradicting himself over whether he was aware of Craig's "Cannanite article" and when, and the reports that Dawkins felt wounded in his pride by Prof Lennox's debate performance, I cannot help but conclude that baby Dawkins has thrown his toys out of the pram: all this could have been settled agreeably, ages ago, by a straight-forward, honest, even debate.
Instead? Dawkins is left scraping the barrel of empty New Atheist polemic. He has no arguments to offer, merely abusive comments which make his elderly, retired self indistinguishable from the pubescent teenager frantically seeking an anger-outlet for the frustration of attempting to burst his pimples.
Footage of Dr Craig's response to Dawkins' The God Delusion is imminently due to hit youtube.
In the meantime, however, I'll leave you with this report. It's a personal testimony too, and will explain the recent change to the sub-heading of this blog.
Indeed, while I've no fear of voicing my comments on Dawkins' pathetic and hypocritcal behaviour, I still mean what I said, in this video - such is the (irreducible?) complexity of life:
If you're still a follower of Dawkins, after all he's done and all I've demonstrated on this page...
...re-evaluate your faith!
Posted by Birdieupon at 04:25 3 comments:
My Response To Dawkins' Latest Anti-Craig Excuse in The Guardian:
Dawkins wrote this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/richard-dawkins-william-lane-craig?CMP=twt_fd
So I wrote this:
Dawkins, who are you kidding? This is your 11th excuse:
1) You hadn't heard of Dr Craig (plenty of philosophers actually have, contrary to your unspecified anecdote, and it's your duty to do your homework if you write a bestseller which steps outside your biology credentials). Let's consult atheist philosopher Quentin Smith:
"William Lane Craig is a leading philosopher of religion and philosopher of time. A count of the articles in the philosophy journals shows that more articles have been published about Craig's defence of the Kalam argument than have been published about any other philosopher's contemporary formulation of an argument for God's existence".
To top that off... presumably, therefore, you've never spoken to AC Grayling or Daniel Dennett? Both of whom have encountered Dr Craig in a debate exchange? Though Grayling did deny his ever happened (2005), so perhaps you caught a bad meme?
2) You only debate bishops (we've all seen you debate non-clergy, including academics. Is it true the real reason you won't debate Craig is because you felt the Lennox debates went badly?)
3) The arrogance of your claim "it'll look good on your CV but not mine". Why do you think you would BOOST Dr Craig? His reputation and career is already in full swing. He was engaging with the question of God's existence long before you appeared on the scene. Maybe you meant it wouldn't look good because you'd lose? How about Dr Daniel Came's comment (Oxford atheist philosopher):
"The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be interpreted as cowardice on your part".
4) You don't debate "creationists". Craig accepts contemporary science and uses philosophical arguments, none of which depend on any special alternative forms of "Christian Science". You were perfectly happy to debate Kirk Cameron (the "Banana Man"'s sidekick) on TV, and would have if he didn't pull out. In fact, I find this most bizarre of all. Because of the sheer number of interactions you've had with young-Earth creationists etc on your TV shows, I've come to know more about them and their views than ever before! So much for not wanting to give them the "oxygen of publicity".
5) You won't debate people who's "only claim to fame is that they are professional debaters"? Again, this stemmed from your ignorance of Dr Craig's credentials... yet somehow this ignorance empowered you to make a judgement on what they were. Evidently you don't care for evidence, as it's easy to see Dr Craig has two PhDs and publishes scores of articles in the academy. Debates take up the least of his schedule. And did you read that? "Dr" Craig, not "Mr" Craig as you like to assert, in your childish put-downs. Would you think me any more respectable, or confident in my arguments, if I started calling you "Mr Dick"?
6) You're "busy".... You're also retired, aren't you? An evening's debate and the preparation for it would not remotely dent your calendar if you wanted to do it (you find plenty of time to preach to the choir).
7) You claimed to have already debated him in Mexico. Would this be the 6-person panel event where you told Dr Craig "I don't consider this a debate with you"? Would this be the event where your response specifically to Dr Craig lasted precisely 1 minute and 04 seconds? Frankly, your first diagnosis of the situation was correct, and yet now you've gone back on it... I wonder why that could be? Again, Dr Came was not impressed with your reply, which was simply a youtube link to this "non-debate".
8) You've no intention of helping Dr Craig with "his relentless drive for self-promotion". But, of course, your recent self-promotional tour of "The Magic of Reality", which included a shouting match with Bill O'Reilly (whom you'd described 4 months prior as being "unintelligent" and "ineffective" for public discussion)... presumably was simply your altruistic effort to better the human condition (and make a nice extra buck while you were at it, of course). Dr Craig, if you'd done your homework still, has made it perfectly clear he's not seeking this debate with you, but he's responded to independent invites. I'd have thought you'd twig that, given that they'd also be liaising with you!
9) You said you "have no interest in this". Really? Then why did you write The God Delusion, which has sold over 2.5 million copies? Was that just a passing interest? It would indeed appear the only "interest" you have concerns bank balance, not academic critique and the search for truth (at least that's the impression this extraordinary comment leaves us with).
10) Andrew Copson, your spokesperson for Radio 4, says the reason why you and your Humanist colleagues avoid Dr Craig is because he is "slippery" and constructs his arguments in such a way that they cannot be refuted in the time available (yet, amusingly and inconsistently, Copson also encourages atheists to attend Craig's lecture and "refute him from the floor", which would have to be squeezed into a mere one minute). Are you claiming that you are somehow smarter than all your fellow atheist colleagues who have no qualms debating Dr Craig? Have they been "duped"? Do you wish to say that to their faces (are you planning on starting with Christopher Hitchens, who says of Dr Craig:
"I can tell you that my brothers and sisters in the unbelieving community take him very seriously. He's thought of as a very tough guy: very rigorous, very scholarly, very formidable. I say that without reserve, I don't say it just because I'm here... Normally I don't get people saying, 'good luck tonight and don't let us down' but with him I do."
11) And now, just when we thought the list couldn't possibly evolve any further, you try to smokescreen the issue by calling Dr Craig's views "unpleasant" and all sorts of other words which are emotional, not rational. I thought it was you who proudly paraded the slogan "so what if you find something offensive! It doesn't affect what's true"!
Note that, in trying to blow Dr Craig's treatment of the "Canaanite Question" into your main reason for refusing now, you expose yourself as working from moral assumptions which have no ontological grounding. How can any of your objections be valid if the Old Testament figures were simply following their moral Zeitgeist? Are you not on record, when interviewed after your debate with John Lennox, saying that rape is not really "wrong" but an arbitrary taboo, in the same way we happen to have evolved 5 fingers rather than 6? What about your association with Peter Singer, who has no problems at all with infanticide (or am I taking him out of context)?
Furthermore, let's say Craig is mistaken, and changes his mind on this issue tomorrow... Does that affect whether or not God exists, or the arguments around the question? Does it tell us whether or not Jesus historically rose from the dead? AND... does it tell us anything about whether or not your arguments in The God Delusion are valid? Of course not. It's an entirely separate and secondary issue. Your bestselling book could be riddled with schoolboy errors and logical fallacies EVEN if there actually is no God! But, to this very day, despite the fact that Dr Craig has published his criticisms in written form, all you have to offer are ad hominems (especially on your website) the likes of which one would expect from a teenage "troll".
Once again, Professor Dawkins, you are blowing smoke and running for cover. You have all the time in the world for the people who will help you self-promote, but academics with the formal training in logic and reasoning, which you lack on your CV, are simply not worthy, it would appear.
Face facts, Professor Dawkins: all the academics debating Dr Craig are either graduates from or Professors at Oxford University (okay, Arif Ahmed is Cambridge, which I'm sure pales in comparison). One has already accused you of cowardice and ducking the "intellectual heavyweights". Atheist Prof Peter Millican will not only debate Dr Craig but HOST the lecture where he critiques your book; a panel 2 of 3 of which are non-believers, will also respond...
...but apparently, you're superior even to them, because you sense a reality they cannot. A "magic" reality.
I used to find you convincing, but then I followed your advice about questioning everything and studying the arguments and evidence. It saddens me to see you don't actually practice what you preach.
Man up and debate. As the Pythons would say, "stop that! This is getting silly!" :-)
"[The God Delusion] simply puts an argument and if your views are strong enough... you will be able to defend those views. You will not say 'oh it's offensive! It's offensive! 'You'll say 'no, you are wrong here, you are wrong here, and you are wrong here.' And that's what you should do... And I hope you will do it when you've read the book."
"They've got nothing, really, to stand up for. They've got nothing. They've got no decent arguments. They have to take offence. It's the only weapon they've got."
"I don't care who you are or what community you come from or what church you go to or anything else. I want to talk to you, have a dialogue with you, about the evidence one way or the other. We'll have a friendly conversation about it and I'll win the argument."
- Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins' Hypocritical & Self-Promotional Excuse for Avoiding William Lane Craig:
World-famous atheist Richard Dawkins has given, I've counted, about 10 excuses for not defending his 2.5 million+ bestselling book The God Delusion against world-leading Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig, who tours the UK from October 17th.
He resists despite the fact that a fellow atheist from Oxford University has accused him of cowardice*; not to mention the latest news that Craig's critique of The God Delusion will actually be hosted by another atheist academic from Oxford (whom he will have debated just 4 days prior) in front of a panel of skeptics (from Oxford) and that 4/5 of Craig's debate opponents will be from... Oxford (the other one's Cambridge, so I guess we can let that slip for not quite cutting the intellectual mustard).
And Dawkins' latest excuse is truly unbelievable: "I have no intention of assisting Craig in his relentless drive for self-promotion." (Telegraph)
Pause to consider, for a moment:
1) Craig has not sought to debate Dawkins. He's responded to invitations from independent organisations who have tried to set this up - in fact he's never set up a single debate, himself, in his life!
2) Best of all, Dawkins will actually be spending October... self-promoting! He'll be charging around the country and in TV studios plugging his new book The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True! In fact, Dawkins will be promoting it in the Royal Albert Hall on October 19th, while Craig is in Cambridge delivering a lecture on Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design.
Dawkins has no fear sharing the Sheldonian Theatre with
members of the "in-group" (atheist author Sam Harris)
Dawkins' calendar, on his website, indicates that October 25th (the night of Dawkins' challenge to fill Oxford Sheldonian Theatre's empty debating chair) is free for him. It also, however, mentions a movie-screening in New York, so one hopes Dawkins isn't planning on fleeing the country!
To top it all off, while Dawkins' record of academic responses to Craig's arguments remains precisely zero, he's found plenty of time to hurl insults at Craig on his website, including "ponderous buffoon" and that his logic is used to "bamboozle his faith-head audience". Isn't that the wrong way round? Shouldn't this "faith-head" be hate-mailing him? At this rate, might we even find Dawkins making irrational arguments (or is that just a silly question)?
So, there you have it. Rather than share his stage, Dawkins prefers to stage his shares. Rather than engage in an academic exchange and critique of his published work, he'd rather you just "buy" his arguments (on faith)?
Call it irony, hypocrisy, whatever you want... it's certainly not "bright".
(Reasonable Faith UK Tour website: http://www.bethinking.org/craig)
* (Telegraph article in which atheist accuses Dawkins of cowardice: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8511931/Richard-Dawkins-accused-of-cowardice-for-refusing-to-debate-existence-of-God.html)
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Seeking the other side of the story
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Haiti: Five Years After the Quake
December 30, 2014 · by Paul · in Uncategorized
Wandering the bustling streets of downtown Port-au-Prince, my first question is, “where’s the rubble?”
I can sense my host holding back an eye roll.
“You know, it’s been almost five years.”
In some ways, my question was ridiculous. But reports of a devastated city remained fresh in my mind. It seems no one bothered to send reporters back for an update once the debris was finally carted away.
“Did they rebuild differently?”
“I thought the world promised to give Haiti ten billion dollars?”
“Promised. Donors delivered less than half of their pledges. Most aid didn’t stay in the country. Little of it helped the average Haitian.”
In many countries I have visited, clear narratives quickly emerged that diverged from the mainstream media. Pakistanis hated terrorists, Afghans felt hope, Somalis successfully self-governed, and so on.
Unfortunately, Haiti wasn’t quite so easy or clear.
Downtown Port-au-Prince.
Helpless or Hopeful?
The January 12, 2010 earthquake killed 200,000 Haitians and displaced 15% of the country.
The media descended on Haiti almost immediately. Two narratives emerged. The first was familiar: helpless Haiti once again struck by disaster. Crumbled buildings, battered bodies, poverty, and desperation. Dire warnings of looting and chaos. The final nail in the coffin of a country teetering from one disaster to the next.
The second was also a common post-disaster storyline: hope and unity. After meddling with and failing Haiti for so long, the world would finally make things right. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush united forces. Telethons and fundraisers raised money to “rebuild, better.” There suddenly were more celebrities in Haiti than in Hollywood.
Unlike war-torn or disaster-plagued countries in Africa or Asia, an American could fly to Haiti in two hours from Florida. Haiti somehow seems more real than a Somalia or Syria. People genuinely wanted to help.
So, five years later, what did they accomplish?
Visible scars heal faster than emotional ones
Haiti tops many “most dangerous countries in the world” lists. Googling “Is Haiti dangerous?” leads to such gems as this post, which claims, “the level of crime in Haiti is beyond horrific. There are no safe areas in the country. While the rate of kidnapping has declined since it reached a peak in 2006, it’s still incredibly high.”
My friends reacted similarly. “I thought you were done with your dangerous countries?” “Why would you go to Haiti?” “Don’t get killed.”
I now rarely consult US State Department’s travel advisories in advance, but enjoy reading them afterward. For once, I give them credit for taking a nuanced approach: “Hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens safely visit Haiti each year, but the poor state of Haiti’s emergency response network should be carefully considered.”
One kidnapping was reported to the embassy in 2014. Not exactly an epidemic considering hundreds of thousands of potential targets.
Haiti’s 2011 murder rate was 6.9 per 100,000 residents, compared to neighboring Dominican Republic’s 24.9 and Jamaica’s 40.9. The latter are top tourist destinations.
Royal Caribbean Cruises leases the only major Haitian international tourist attraction, Labadee Beach. It markets the beach as either a “private resort” or “Labadee, Hispaniola”. Haiti’s name is so sullied that it requires omitting the name of the country. Can you imagine a cruise itinerary referencing Key West, North America? Labadee is one of many pristine beaches in Haiti, yet most receive few, if any, tourists because of Haiti’s sordid reputation.
During my week in Haiti, I witness little evidence of the 2010 quake and certainly no chaos. I strolled through Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien at day and night in both nice and gritty neighborhoods. Not a single person harassed me or asked for money. I never felt remotely threatened or unsafe. The only guns I saw were those of police and UN peacekeepers – and some ancient canons.
Canons at the Citadelle Fortress.
While many buildings look shabby, I am told that they appeared similar before the quake. The tent cities are gone, although most displaced Haitians never received their promised “new homes”. Many still live in makeshift shelters.
While visible scars have healed, the quake continues having a deep emotional impact. I do not meet a single person who does not personally know someone hurt or killed in the quake. While Haitians are accustomed to disaster and tragedy, the earthquake somehow stands apart as uniquely traumatizing.
While wandering Port-au-Prince’s historic Iron Market, a sassy and voluptuous middle-aged Haitian woman stops me and my friend. She comes across as aggressive. “Why are you here?” She assumes we work for NGOs, but instantly warms up when my friend responds in Creole.
She laments the state of post-quake affairs, but quickly moves onto more pressing topics – like men. She points at me suggestively. I blush. My friend refuses to recount parts of the conversation, “for my sake”. But while they continue their animated conversation, it dawns on me: the quake indeed looms large in every Haitian’s psyche, but on a daily basis the same mundane vicissitudes that face every human-being loom even larger.
Has anything really changed?
Haitians are rightly proud of their history. When Haiti gained independence from France in 1804, it was the first independent nation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the only one to defeat three European superpowers. It is also the only country in the world established from a slave revolt.
Yet, today, Haiti garners much more depressing superlatives: the poorest and most corrupt country in the Western Hemisphere with the lowest human development index. It is ten times poorer than the Dominican Republic, with whom it shares the island of Hispaniola.
In the aftermath of the quake, some believed the disaster would finally finish Haiti. The optimists disagreed, hoping the quake would at last unite and rally the country. Aid would rebuild it. International attention would save it.
While Haitians will never forget the quake, it’s not obvious how much it will ultimately change Haiti’s trajectory, for better or for worse.
Haiti’s beauty earned it the moniker “Pearl of the Antilles”. Yet, poverty has frayed its beauty. Trash litters streets, rivers, and the land. Most of the naturally wooded country has been deforested to make charcoal. The countryside remains surprisingly lush and verdant, but major rains quickly lead to devastating mud slides and soil erosion.
Countryside outside Port-au-Prince
Brain drain persists. Over 80% of Haitian college graduates lived abroad in 2004. Or, as my Haitian friends says, “As soon Haitians get enough money, they leave. There is no middle class in Haiti – they all live in Miami.”
Corruption continues to be endemic. My friend shares a story about two government ministers from Haiti and Colombia. Both boast about stealing public funds. The Colombian shows the Haitian a picture of a two lane bridge crossing a river. “How do you like my four lane bridge?”
The Haitian smiles and pulls out his own picture, this time of a scenic, untouched river valley. The Haitian responds, “How do you like my eight lane bridge?”
Getting anything done requires bribes at all levels. Foreigners avoid investment, worried about being implicated in corruption or losing their assets due to political instability.
I went to Haiti ignorant, thinking that perhaps it was like South Africa, with something akin to apartheid. In reality, race is not the issue, but it is an issue. Plenty of dark-skinned Haitians possess significant wealth. Haitian presidents have been black for the last century. That said, you’ll almost never see a light-skinned Haitian walking the streets. So while there are rich dark-skinned Haitians, there seem to be few poor light-skinned ones.
Social class dominates life. There is an upper class and the poor with little in the middle. Mansions overlook slums. The well-off largely live a separate life, choosing cars over walking and flying over buses. One can forgive them – walking over open drains through clouds of noxious exhaust or buses that wind through narrow, bumpy dirt roads is neither pleasant nor efficient. Still, the economic divide looms large.
A Haitian entrepreneur summed it up, “There is progress in things being built, but ultimately the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The government is better about talking about things than actually doing them.” Another mused, “The country is not moving forward or backward, just in circles.”
Ultimately, the humor and warmth of Haitians and the beauty of their country persevere despite the quake. Yet, so too does the inequality, corruption, and poverty that plagued Haiti before the disaster. Every Haitian I met radiated tremendous pride and expressed a strong desire for change as well as a willingness to work for it. I met countless Haitians who held US passports, all of whom voluntarily decided to return home to help build a better future.
Hills of Cap Haitien.
The words of the man sitting next to me on my bus from Port-au-Prince to Cap Haitien stick with me. “Haitians love to work. They have been robbed of their ability to do so by a series of corrupt leaders and outside meddlers. Give us our ability to work back and we can and will rebuild our own country.”
I hope for the sake of Haiti that the world manages to help it do so. We have seen enough of the wretched side of Haiti. We should now seek its splendor and charm.
In my next post, I’ll delve more deeply into the role of aid in “rebuilding” Haiti, the “Republic of NGOs”
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Pre-BB: Channel 5 confirm Big Brother launch during Election Week
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By Jarrod On May 19, 2017
Channel 5’s move sees the new series of Big Brother clash with the week of the General Election, with the first full week of content airing during the first week in June.
The broadcaster today issued advanced programming information for June 3rd – June 9th, with Big Brother included within that PI.
This means that bar any final minute changes, Big Brother is going to clash with the final days of campaigning for party leaders for the snap election. An exact date for the launch is expected to be confirmed later next week.
A weekend launch is however now looking unlikely as ITV will be airing the final of Britain’s Got Talent during the same weekend, as well as airing the live British Soap Awards.
Big Brother often schedules to avoid clashing with the talent show, which regularly brings in large ratings for ITV. Big Brother could have been deliberately put in this week to match with the election thanks to the “political” theme of the series, seeing the Best of Britain enter the House.
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U.S. Virgin Islands (1-340) Country and Phone Codes
How to call U.S. Virgin Islands with 1-340 country code?
U.S. Virgin Islands is designated by many international country codes. The most used code is 1-340. It is used to dial a VQ phone number from another country.
If you are calling U.S. Virgin Islands from another country, you have to add the telephone code "+1-340" before dialing the phone number.
This illustration will assist you call U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR) :
Find the VQ Country Code (1-340) using our website.
Append U.S. Virgin Islands country code and dial +1-340 7111 99999 from your phone.
About U.S. Virgin Islands Codes
U.S. Virgin Islands VI Phone Code
VI is also identified by ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 and ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 codes which are VI and VIR. Added to the 1-340 country code; these are the outstanding U.S. Virgin Islands country codes.
ISO numeric-3 (826) (850), E164 (1) and .tld (.vi) are also recognized codes for U.S. Virgin Islands.
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British Virgin Islands 1-284 country code
Puerto Rico 1-787, 1-939 country code
Anguilla 1-264 country code
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1-869 country code
Montserrat 1-664 country code
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Books, Fashion, Museums/Exhibits
Many thanks to our colleagues at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for putting together this terrific post that they are sharing with us.
Rachel High, Publishing and Marketing Assistant, Editorial Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Left: Iris van Herpen (Dutch, born 1984). Ensemble, spring/summer 2010 haute couture. 3D-printed (SLS) white polyamide, machine-sewn white goat leather, and hand-cut acrylic fringe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2015 (2016.16a, b). Photo © Nicholas Alan Cope.
Right: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology by Andrew Bolton. Photos by Nicholas Alan Cope. Cover: PVC in 3 layers with transparent stiffener and opaque white silkscreen, high-frequency welds, and die-cut single-layer PVC flaps; hand-insert die-punched Kendal Manilla board. Interior: Favini Burano black paper (UV silver ink); Bindakote paper (cold stamp silver foil, UV inks); Gmund Shade paper; Gardapat Kiara and Arcoprint Milk papers (high-density CMYK ink); Smyth sew; Otabind. Photo by Peter Zeray
The exhibition Manus × Machina: Fashion in An Age of Technology, open through August 14, 2016, traces the evolution of fashion from the founding of the haute couture through the onset of industrialization and mass production to the present day, when designers employ technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and computer-generated weaving and patterns to create high fashion. In a similar vein, the exhibition catalogue pushes the limits of contemporary book design and production and, like the fashions in the show, uses a striking mix of hand (“manus”) and machine (“machina”) techniques.
Each of the 90 ensembles in Manus × Machina has a caption that unpacks the “DNA” of the garment, noting what was made by hand and what was done by machine. In this post, I’ll discuss the “DNA” of the book and share a behind-the-scenes look at its complex production.
The UV-equipped offset press and printed sheets at a printer in Padua, Italy. Photo by Gwen Roginsky
The production process begins at printers in Verona and Padua, in Italy. The printing press prints four colors of ultraviolet ink—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black—onto sheets that have already been stamped with silver foil. These high-quality inks react to ultraviolet lights inside the press, setting them almost instantly with the application of light energy.
Two of the many types of paper and printing treatments found in the finished publication. It takes both machine precision and human judgment to create this high-quality catalogue. A combination of five types of paper and three printing processes create different effects in the interior pages of Manus × Machina. Photos by Peter Zeray
At the next stage of production, the printed sheets arrive at a bindery in Vicenza, Italy, where they are folded, cut, sewn, and bound. The bindery applies the interior covers made of die-cut board.
After the books come off the mechanical bindery assembly line, they are inspected and stacked by hand in preparation for insertion into their PVC plastic covers. Photo by Gwen Roginsky
The book’s cover embodies the subject of the catalogue and exhibition by combining techniques done by both machine and hand. The inner cover is based on punch cards used in the first automated Jacquard looms, a 19th-century invention that mechanized the weaving of intricately patterned textiles. This is hand-inserted into the outer cover, which is made up of three sheets of plastic with machine-welded seams. The rigid middle layer of plastic in the front cover is screen-printed by hand, while the flexible outer layers protect the design and allow the book to open easily.
Manus × Machina also contains a second, removable book of interviews by Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of The Costume Institute, with 12 of the designers featured in the catalogue. The designers describe the creative approaches they use to reconcile their vision for their work with reality.
The finished interview book, featuring conversations with Sarah Burton (Alexander McQueen), Hussein Chalayan, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (Valentino), Nicolas Ghesquière (Louis Vuitton), Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough (Proenza Schouler), Iris van Herpen, Christopher Kane, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), Miuccia Prada, and Gareth Pugh. Photo by Peter Zeray
The interview book features a flexible, high-tech Tyvek cover that references the Tyvek dress by Maison Margiela featured in the first section of the catalogue and prevents damage to the book as it is removed from the plastic flap. Tyvek is probably best known as the material used in shipping envelopes; this durable material allows for easy reading without the possibility of rips and tears.
The Tyvek-covered interview books are individually hand-sewn—a literal representation of the interplay between hand and machine. Photo by Alessandra Bertozzo
When all the components are folded, collated, trimmed, sewn, and glued, the catalogue and interview book are inserted into the plastic cover flaps by hand. Each finished book is individually packaged in a protective poly bag before being shipped.
In both its content and the materials and process used to produce it, the catalogue for Manus × Machina represents the central theme of the exhibition: the relationship between hand and machine in design and production. A fitting complement to the exhibition!
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[Video] K1NG ZOE - FEEL1NG AMAZ1NG | @K1NG_ZOEBSG
Added by Amanda MzOnPoint Goldben on August 17, 2020 at 1:29pm
There’s a new rap king on the rise and his name is K1NG ZOE. Hailing from Miami, Florida, the lyricist is making waves with his debut single “FEEL1NG AMAZ1NG” as his powerful lyrics bring feel good music back to its essence.
Encouraging others to always feel good about themselves, despite the pressures of society, “FEEL1NG AMAZ1NG” will have people’s mood in high spirits from sun up to sun down.
Following in the footsteps of some of his rap mentors like Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Ice Billion Berg, Billy Blue, Jay-Z, ZRO, and Wiz Khalifa, to name a few, K1NG ZOE explains why he’s on a mission to infuse empowering meaningful lyrics back into music:
“My music is inspirational and it is very relatable. As people sing the lyrics to my songs, they have so much passion because it’s not just a good hook and a fire beat. It’s their life story! I say the things that people want to express, but aren’t sure how others will view them after it’s been said. Everybody wants to be the “toughest gangsta” in a lot of Rap songs today but my music explores the importance of being human, making mistakes, and learning from them to turn mistakes into income.”
K1NG ZOE, a retired US Navy vet, has had an innate love for music since he was a child. In middle school he participated in the school’s band ensemble, furthering his passion for music. While on active duty, he served as a Hospital Corpsmen and it was during his tour in Afghanistan where he started writing about his experiences while there. Upon his return to the states and while continuing to serve his country, he began to record and release his music through the popular global music platforms, “SoundCloud” and “DatPiff Mixtapes.”
“Lines of a King” was his first released mixtape which was played first by DJ 100K in December of 2012. Since then K1NG ZOE has been honorably discharged and has fully devoted himself to fulfilling his appetite for music.
Always having the true spirit of a leader, K1NG ZOE started his own company “Black Sneaker Entertainment” that encompasses a radio station as well as a record label. He is now slated to release a catalog of new music with up and coming artists under Black Sneaks Entertainment/Against All Odds Music Group. Currently working on his debut EP “Season of Revenge” for 2019, K1NG ZOE will also blow you away with his singles “73 featuring Ice Billion Berg” and “FRANCO L1NK.”
Speaking of “FRANCO L1NK,”he explains,
“Everyone measures how successful you are by comparing it to some material worth. They’re checking for how big your crib is or the type of foreign you drive. As for myself, a Franco Link is my chaining day. No pun intended. After the countless sacrifices made to reach my pinnacle, a Franco Link speaks for it all. I want to be able to have the power to make a phone call and change someone’s life completely. And while doing it, that Franco Link will sit just right.”
K1NG ZOE is just getting started and it has been a very promising start. As with all great creators, he has embarked on fulfilling his entrepreneurial vision. Stay tuned as he declares,
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Returning talent brings team hope
Softball, Sports February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 Jarred Davis
The California Baptist University softball team is preparing for the new season and is looking to have as much success as they did in 2014, when they split a PacWest championship with Dixie State University.
The Lancers finished last season with a 46-13 overall record and made their first-ever NCAA postseason run.
For the 2015 season, the Lancers will come in as the No. 23-ranked team in the NCAA Division II preseason poll. The Lancers will not be lacking leadership as they return with experienced players.
The team only lost two seniors at the end of last season to graduation and will only have three seniors on the roster this year.
Savannah Miller, senior kinesiology major and catcher, said she plans on taking on her leadership role seriously this season.
Last season, Miller was named to the National Fast-pitch Coaches Association All-West Region team. She also led the softball team in on-base percentages for the season.
Krista Mann, sophomore kinesiology major and shortstop, played her first season last year as a freshman and was named PacWest Freshman of the Week four times. She said she hopes to improve her numbers this season.
The Lancers will begin their away schedule with a road tournament as they will attend the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic Invite in Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 6-7. Their next tourna- ment will be the Desert Stinger Tournament, Feb. 12-13.
Bill Baber, head coach of the softball team, said he is optimistic about the upcoming season. Baber said the team has retained a good ratio of younger and older players.
“I like the experience that we have; a lot of people that got playing time are back this year.
We have a great opportunity this next week to show it,” Baber said.
Although Dixie State is favored to win the PacWest, Baber said he believes his squad is up for the challenge.
“It will definitely be a battle,” Baber said.
CBU, Lancers, Softball
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Sweden’s SHINING Reveal New Album Artwork
Monday, 22nd July 2013 By Dead Rhetoric
Norway’s Dark Essence Records announced last month that it will be releasing SHINING’s new full-length album, 8 ½ – Feberdrömmar I Vaket Tillstånd. Today, the Swedish outfit have revealed the artwork for the forthcoming release which was completed by Michal Pawlowski and is available for viewing below. The album will be released in both CD and limited edition black or white 12” vinyl versions, with liner notes by Niklas Kvarforth, and is set to appear on September 23 and are available for pre-order here.
Although the upcoming album will be SHINING’s ninth full length, the band deliberately titled it 8 ½ – Feberdrömmar I Vaket Tillstånd as it is said to consist of six songs from the Livets Ändhållplats and Angst era in their original pre-production versions but with the addition of newly recorded bass and guitars, as well as Lars Fredrik Fröslie’s keyboards (ANGST SKVADRON, WOBBLER, ASMEGIN) which the band did not utilize until their sixth record.
SHINING founder and frontman Niklas Kvarforth comments on the concept of the album: “Some of you may remember that five years ago we revealed that we had plans to re-record our debut album and then have six different vocalists doing their own interpretations of the songs instead of merely having them singing on the already set paradigms. You may also be aware that recently we have been working extremely hard to reclaim our birthright by releasing older bootlegs through our webshop in an effort to put an end to this fucking bootlegging bullshit that has been infecting our aura for as long as we’ve been around. So we thought that since the new SHINING full-length album is still in the making now would be the right time to combine a bit of both those projects.
“8 ½ – Febedrömmar I Vaket Tillstånd consist of six songs from the Livets Ändhållplats and Angst era in their original pre-production versions, with newly recorded bass and guitars on top and the malevolent brilliance of Lars Fredrik Fröslie’s keyboard magic, which sadly we didn’t start using until the sixth album. Six vocalists whom we all find both inspiring and ‘otherworldly’ have blessed the album with their madness, some of them even in their native languages. At first, my initial thought was that it might turn out a bit too strange. But after hearing some of our classic songs in French, Hungarian and Norwegian, I am certain the whole concept will please not only our loyal fan-base but even the contemptuous ones as well.”
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